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Five weeks after skipping $100,000 bail to avoid life imprisonment in the U.S. for wartime espionage, Convicted Soviet Spy Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, was refused asylum in Britain, as he had been in Israel. Expertly carving himself up with a steak knife as he was being returned to the U.S. aboard an El Al Israel Airlines jet, Soblen gained a stay in London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country...
...dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying his departure at least until after a court hearing next week. Soblen himself applied for political asylum in Britain, and at week's end had recovered sufficiently to be moved to London's Brixton Prison...
...poor Antonio drops his umbrella into the crevasse. She plucks it out disdainfully, like a black toothpick, and darts it at him. As the fantasy continues, Dr. Antonio dons medieval armor to tilt against this she-devil whom he must kill for fear of loving. Next morning, white-coated asylum attendants pry the demented doctor loose from the top of the billboard...
...family's home in Tuscumbia. Ala., her hands grope upward to a sky she will never see. Indoors, she wanders around the dinner table like an overindulged house pet, grubbing for bits of food. The family talks of sending her for the rest of her life to an asylum for mental defectives-but then finds and hires a young teacher from Boston. Half-blind herself, the teacher knows that if she can give the child a sense of the existence of language, she can give her the world...
Falling three miles wide of its target, the vast Mitsubishi shipyard complex, the bomb obliterated one-third of the city, including 18,409 houses, two war plants, six hospitals, a prison, two schools, a church, and an asylum for the blind and dumb. Of the city's 210,000 wartime inhabitants, it killed 38,000, wounded 21,000 others. Among the dead were 40% of Nagasaki's Christian population, which for centuries has been the biggest of any Japanese city; its Oura and Urakami Roman Catholic churches, respectively the oldest and biggest in Japan, were also hit (both...