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Travel restrictions on U.S. diplomats in Budapest have been lifted, enabling them to go anywhere in the country except to military zones. Delicate negotiations are being carried on with the Vatican over the future of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is still in asylum at the U.S. legation and whom the government wants to leave the country. First signs of a rapport with Rome appeared when the government announced that it would approve Pope Paul's assignment of six new Catholic bishops to vacant Hungarian sees. But the government still refuses to let other bishops and some 1,000 priests...
Latin America's revolution-riddled history has made its leaders sensitive about the right of political asylum. Mindful that today's ins may be to morrow's outs, new rulers often let a predecessor flee abroad, and do not try to bring him back no matter how deserving of punishment he may be. In the U.S., for different reasons, the right of asylum has also been held in high regard. Until last week, no deposed chief of state who had taken refuge in the U.S. had ever been extradited to his homeland...
...unexpected occurred: the new Venezuelan government wanted him back to stand trial on charges of embezzling $13.5 million. The country's new President, Romulo Betancourt, a onetime Marxist who has since moved to the center and who had lived many years in exile, knew the benefits of benevolent asylum; but he was also convinced that if Venezuela was to move toward democracy, it had to break the cycle of graft-and-go leadership...
...been working ever since at the foreign ministry in Moscow (to prove its point, Izvestia even published his picture). Questions raised in Britain's House of Commons got only an acknowledgment that somebody did defect from Russia 18 months ago and had been given asylum in Britain. Possibly, there had been two Russian officials with the same or similar names. Now will the real Anatoly Dolnytsin please stand...
...evening there fell upon me without warning a horrible fear of my own existence. There arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, looking absolutely nonhuman. That shape am I, I felt, potentially. Nothing that I possess can defend me against that fate if the hour for it should strike for me as it struck for him. I became a mass of quivering fear. I remember wondering how other people could live, how I myself had ever lived, so unconscious of that...