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...Aureliano himself had had enough of aurelianadas for the moment; four days later he turned up at the Uruguayan embassy in the nearby suburb of Miramar and asked for asylum. Although it was the second time he had done this (the first was in 1952), Batista ordered that he be granted safe-conduct from the country...
...chief reforms advocated is a Unified Quota system to replace the national origins method now used. Instead of allocating a fixed number of immigrants to each country, the new plan would divide the total number into preference groups, designed to provide for family reunion, asylum for the persecuted, relief for over-populated areas, the special needs for technical skills, and lastly, general immigration. Also abolished is the practice of leaving a large proportion of the total quota unused...
...remain in Australia permanently. I wish to become an Australian citizen as soon as possible. I ask for protection . . . and assistance . . . I no longer believe in Communism of the Soviet leadership. I no longer believe in Communism since I have seen the Australian way of living." He sought asylum, and asylum was granted. Oddly enough, he did not ask asylum for his wife, though she knew that he was about to defect. Last week he was in hiding under guard, playing Russian Easter music on his phonograph...
...must start all over again." Today, Haya's party is shattered and outlawed. Peru's President Manuel Odria, who dealt the Apristas their knockout blow, has stabilized his country with public works and measures against inflation. Like most Latin politicos who invoke the right of asylum, Haya is now free once more to scheme and dream of a comeback. But the obstacles in his path appear greater than at any time in his stormy career...
Peru's Foreign Office announced last week that diplomatic negotiations with Colombia in Bogotá had produced a neighborly agreement for the ending of Latin America's most celebrated case of political asylum: that of Peruvian Leftist Leader Haya de la Torre, accused of heading an abortive revolution in 1948. A refugee in Colombia's Lima embassy since 1949, Haya will probably be allowed to go into exile in Uruguay...