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Shops reopened, repairmen restrung power lines blown down by battle, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks emerged from jail or hiding (among them: top Buddhist Thich Tri Quang, who had sought asylum ten weeks ago in the U.S. embassy). At Xa Loi Pagoda, principal scene of last August's government crackdown, thousands prayed. From Poulo Condore prison island and other jails, 150 political prisoners were freed, telling bitter tales of torture...
...creepy prologue, the terrors to come are capsuled in a roadside cafe owner's blazing vengeance on a rapist who attacks his daughter, lovely Liliane Brousse. For this, the father is adjudged insane and sent to an asylum. Four years later, itinerant Artist Kerwin Mathews happens along, promptly falls in love with Wife-Stepmother Nadia Gray and agrees to help her husband escape. What happens next? Just about everything, most of it unexpected, non-formula, and deftly contrived to lead the audience into a maze of wrong assumptions...
...Americans." The Diem regime, she claimed, had been nearing victory against the Red guerrillas, and now some people were trying to "rob the fruits of victory from the victors with the help of their little friends, whom we all consider as traitors to their fatherland." Would Mme. Nhu seek asylum in the U.S.? "Never!" she cried, trembling with anger. "I cannot stay in a country whose government stabbed me in the back...
...Short List, the hero has declined from early literary promise into that well-padded asylum for mediocrity-BBC journalism. He decides to seduce Barbara Coles, a brilliant young stage designer. But it is a dreadful victory-an ego-shriveling comeuppance which Barbara achieves by 1) matching his rake's cold heart with cool and uncommitted bedroom expertise of her own, and 2) contemptuously letting him know that she considers him a vulgar interloper in her world of uncompromised talent...
...last, after four days and nights, the H11 pulled into the tiny harbor at Cozumel Island, a fishing community eleven miles off the Yucatan peninsula. The Mexicans immediately granted asylum, and within an hour a committee of Cozumel townfolk was rounding up clothing, food and money. Last week the refugees were negotiating U.S. visas for entry to Miami. Their leader, Rafael Rodríguez Alfonso, 48, longtime member of the Cuban underground, is already talking about another move. "We don't want to sit here and eat ham and eggs," he said. "We want to fight...