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Floyd telephoned Kuznetsov's plea for asylum to the Home Office. A short time later, an official auto picked up the Russian writer at Floyd's residence and whisked him to a government-owned "safe house" in the suburbs. While British intelligence agents began an interrogation, Home Secretary James Callaghan conferred with Prime Minister Harold Wilson about the case. Their decision: to grant Kuznetsov an unlimited residence visa...
...took his belt, glasses, comb and watch, then jailed him for two hours. "I thought they were joking," said Dudley, but he knew that they were not when one cop told him: "You be careful of what you say or we'll send you to a state insane asylum for 30 days examination...
...difficult. Spurred by West Germany's noisy left, the number of applications for exemption by conscientious objectors has risen from 6,000 in 1967 to 11,800 last year-and 81% of the exemptions were granted. West Berlin, where residents are draft-exempt, is increasingly used as an asylum for young men who want to avoid military service. They stay there as students or workers until they pass draft age. In recent weeks, three Bundeswehr officers-two of whom held sensitive positions-have defected to East Germany. There is an increase of minor sabotage, consisting largely of motor damage...
...problem. But over the centuries the notion persisted that the mad were afflicted by God-and that along with this affliction went preternatural vision. The 19th century painter Richard Dadd had the fortune-as well as the misfortune-to embody the two definitions. His talent blossomed in an insane asylum. Yet his masterpiece, The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke, combines Boschian mystery with Alice-in-Wonderland fantasy in a way that makes it clear Dadd was a prophet of Surrealism. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, Critic Edward Lucie-Smith declares: "No 20th century British artist has succeeded...
...about as sincere as anyone can be. You are sincerely unhappy, sincerely frustrated and sincerely confused. You are also sincerely wrong about the few facts you cite, and sincerely illogical in the violent conclusions you reach. Besides, what does "sincerity" have to do with issues? Any insane asylum is full of sincere patients. Hitler was undoubtedly sincere. So are the followers of Voliva, who think the world is sincerely flat...