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...seemed to reverse her father's earlier decision to close India's borders against refugees. Paying tribute to the Dalai Lama (who has reportedly fled Lhasa) as a "man of vision and intelligence." Nehru's daughter promised that any Tibetans fleeing to India would be "granted asylum under international...
...problems Castro is expected to deal with first are the reopening of the gambling casinos and the dispute over the right of asylum...
...asylum issue involves about 40 associates of ousted President Fulgencio Batista, the dictator who took refuge in Latin-American embassies in Havana when the Batista government fell...
Castro's government has refused safe conducts to those it considers refugees from justice. This has aroused opposition in the capitals of Latin America, where the right of asylum and safe conduct is traditional...
Died. Stanley Henry ("Doc") Reser, 71 (TIME, Jan. 5, 1953), rum-swigging onetime U.S. Navy pharmacist's mate, who landed in Haiti in 1927 during the long (1915-34) Marine occupation, stayed on when the troops went home, as director of the country's only insane asylum, took up the study of voodoo, became a houngan (priest) and internationally famed explicator of the jungle rites; of a heart attack; at his wattled hut near Port-au-Prince...