Word: safe-conduct
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...trouble began on July 9, when three Cubans forced their way into the embassy building seeking safe-conduct to Spain. To prevent further asylum seekers from entering, Cuban police have blockaded the buildings and Castro has said none of the refugees will be given permission to leave...
...police officers to conduct an investigation of the abortive coup. Still, there was reason to wonder how tough the Thai government planned to be. Only hours after the takeover try fizzled, Manoon and two of his aides fled to Singapore on a Royal Thai Air Force plane. Their safe-conduct out of the country was reportedly arranged in exchange for the release of a Thai air force commander held by the rebels...
...cast in her two novels and scores of stories. Home Truths, her sixth collection of short fiction, catches her characters in full flight from family, religion and country. All are bearers of a metaphorical "true passport" that transcends nationality and signifies internal freedom. For some this serves as a safe-conduct to independence. For others it is a guarantee of loneliness and despair...
Until last week's resignations, the U.S. harbored faint hope about the National Salvation Committee's chances for success. Jumblatt had finally been persuaded by Habib to leave his native village in central Lebanon and join the negotiations. Habib provided Jumblatt with a car and a safe-conduct pass for his trip to the presidential palace in Baabda. That kind of skillful arranging was only one of the rare blend of talents that Habib, 62, brought to his latest daunting assignment. Last year it was the blunt-spoken Habib who persuaded Israel and the P.L.O. to accept...
...denounced as a traitor by Castro six months later and forced to resign; in New York City. Urrutia, who charged that Castro had transformed Cuba into a "Red hell," spent four years under house arrest and in asylum at the Venezuelan and Mexican embassies in Havana before gaining safe-conduct to the U.S., where he led a coalition of 22 anti-Castro exile groups...