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...prosecution. In a letter to Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker argued that Noriega's alleged involvement in drug dealing and murder violated all moral standards of the Roman Catholic Church and of civil society, and deprived Noriega of any right to asylum...
...church, though, has a tradition of giving asylum to Latin American politicians on the run. Among them: Guillermo Endara, the U.S.-installed current President of Panama, who took shelter in the nunciature from Noriega thugs after he had won an election last May that the dictator annulled. One high-ranking Vatican official summarized the thinking: "The right to asylum must be defended, even for Lucifer." Moreover, contended a church statement, Noriega's surrender to the papal legate "helped in a very positive way to put an end to the conflict ((with invading American troops)) and to hasten the time...
...were turned away. Can you refuse me? Laboa decided he could not. Shortly after, a nunciature vehicle picked up Noriega at the Dairy Queen. And why had American troops not surrounded the papal embassy as they had the Cuban and Nicaraguan embassies, where it was suspected Noriega might seek asylum? The State Department answered, in effect, that they had simply never thought of doing...
...unique among the earlier poets in having a troubled childhood. Delmore Schwartz's relationship with his mother was also occasionally explosive, Simpson writes. And Robert Lowell hinted at the sadness of his childhood in his later confessional poems, one of which describes his fictional stay in a mental asylum where all the patients were from Harvard and all the monitors came from Boston University...
...restless one, eager to reclaim former territory, one of many touchy issues that will be raised as the old order in Europe breaks down. Formal reunification may still be some way off. But each demonstration, each improvised banner calling for freedom and each East German who turns up seeking asylum at the West German embassy in Prague is already bringing a divided nation closer together...