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WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. A bitter novel about a group of Russian intellectuals languishing in an insane asylum because they dared to oppose Soviet leaders...
WARD 7, by Valeriy Tarsis. The Ukrainian writer was railroaded into an insane asylum in 1962 when he published The Bluebottle, a vigorous attack on Soviet tyranny. Not surprisingly, he found that the other patients' only lunacy was to criticize Khrushchev's Russia, and now he voices the plight of his fellow inmates...
...conversation piece of 1965-66 will almost certainly be last season's London sensation−The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade. The author is a German named Peter Weiss, just one of the foreign playwrights likely to lend savor and distinction to the season. They include John Osborne, whose Inadmissible Evidence was compared flatteringly by British reviewers to his Look Back in Anger. Then there is Christopher Plummer in Peter Shaffer's The Royal Hunt of the Sun, a morality...
Fugitives have sought asylum in other countries ever since the Hebrews' flight from Egypt. But international law still recognizes no right to extradition unless it is authorized by treaty, and such treaties impose rigorous requirements. For one thing, the requesting country must provide a convincing case that the fugitive committed a particular crime within the country's territory. For another, that case is usually governed by the asylum country's rules of evidence and other legal standards. If the fugitive is wanted for something that is not a crime in the asylum country, for example...
...Irish court. A pending British law will send Irish warrants to local British magistrates for endorsement, provide the same 15-day grace period and right of habeas corpus. Both laws will also deny extradition for debtors, political and military offenders, and for crimes that are not indictable in the asylum country...