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...MIGs screamed up alongside the IIyushin-18 turboprop, but not even their buzzing could dissuade the hijackers. When the plane landed at Tegel Airport in the French sector of West Berlin, they handed over passports and guns (which turned out to be unloaded) and announced: "We are asking for asylum...
...Issue of Asylum. Extradition and punishment of hijackers could discourage the practice, but as the LOT incident showed, piracy in the air is encouraged by politicking on the ground. Poland demanded that the two East Germans be sent to Warsaw for prosecution. But French occupation officials in West Berlin, on instructions from Paris, granted them asylum. The hijackers were not exactly home free. France announced plans to try them in its military-mission court in Berlin on as yet unspecified charges. The compromise will not please those who argue that, as President Nixon told the U.N. last month, "sky piracy...
...BERLIN-Two armed East German defectors forced a Polish airliner to land in West Berlin yesterday. The two men were granted asylum...
Saying they had deserted the U.S. Army to avoid being sent to Vietnam the two men: asked for asylum-the first to do so in this Scandinavian country...
...WASHINGTON-The friendly diplomatic relations between the United States and Denmark were endangered Sunday when two U.S. GI's sought political asylum in Denmark...