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...Czechoslovak tourists went sightseeing in a group, returning to their simple hotel near Stockholm's docks for lunch. Afternoons were free, but few of the Czechoslovaks used them for sightseeing. Singly, or in small family groups, the tourists slipped away to local police stations to apply for political asylum...
Former Major General Pyotr Grigorenko spent 34 of his 63 years in the Soviet Army. In 1961, however, he had the temerity to criticize the "Khrushchev cult" at a party meeting. That outburst eventually cost him his army career, and sent him off to an asylum for 14 months as a "schizophrenic." In time, the old soldier became one of the most vigorous and spirited dissenters against the current regime. Seven months ago when he arrived in Tashkent to act as counsel for ten Crimean Tartars who were on trial for civil rights activities, Grigorenko was arrested for "anti-Soviet...
...investigator, Nikolai Danilov, left his work on the island of Sakhalin and took a job as a legal-aid consultant in a Leningrad law office. He was arrested and confined in a special insane asylum for political offenders, where he is being "treated" with insulin shock...
...Asylum Attendants. These days the shrine should be easily accessible. Actually, it is harder to reach than heaven. The bearded old wanderer Pierre (Paul Frankeur) and his young companion lean (Laurent Terzieff) are magnets for metaphysical flashbacks. A caped gentleman from another century lectures them on piety, gives them money, then disappears down the road-with a dwarf that suddenly appears at his side. A chauffeur gives them a lift, but when one of the pilgrims mutters "Ah, God," the men are unceremoniously booted out of the car. Seeking shelter from a storm, the beggars are transported to the 14th...
...effect, no longer able to earn his living as an intellectual. There is widespread apprehension in Moscow that he may be confined to an insane asylum, if he continues to speak...