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...Polish colony. The ship's medical officer was gone, too. Last week Britain's Home Secretary confirmed the news: the ship's doctor and Captain Jan, holder of the Gold Cross of Merit for "outstanding service" to the Polish Communist regime, had separately asked for political asylum in Britain, and it had been granted...
Tribute. In Pfaffenrode, East Germany, citizens quailed under the rebukes of high Communist brass who declared that the town had gone too far in naming its newest building, an insane asylum, after dead Communist Hero Ernst Thälmann...
...mentally ill. Dr. Ralph S. Binay, chief psychiatric consultant of the New York Police Department, found that the greater majority of murderers were in desperate need of some psychiatric treatment. This fact would make the present system of assigning some murderers to the death house, others to an insane asylum, grotesquely illogical...
Korea. Any peace the U.S. makes must be "fair to the Korean people" and to the war prisoners who are "seeking political asylum...
...last week a U.S. jet plane zipped along the Yalu River, spewing leaflets into a southeast breeze that would blow them into Manchuria. The leaflets bore a fat offer from the U.N. command: to any pilot who delivered a MIG jet fighter to South Korea, the U.S. promised political asylum and a reward of $50.000. To start the ball rolling, the first man out would get an extra $50,000 besides...