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...today, he would be a student, not a professor." So writes Arkady Shevchenko in the second and concluding excerpt from his memoirs, to appear next week in TIME. Shevchenko recounts how, finally fed up with the Soviet system despite his privileged place in it, he seeks and is promised asylum in the U.S.--but only after he agrees to become "a reluctant spy." For the next 2 1/2 years he lives in constant fear of discovery by the KGB and in constant guilt about the family he might have to leave behind. In 1978 he finally comes in from...
...little as $100. "In the best month, we got $600,000 from the gringos," recalls a Pastora aide. "Now, we get nothing. If one of us manages to scrape together $5,000, we buy rice and maybe 20,000 rounds of ammunition." Last month Pastora sought temporary asylum for himself and 700 of his followers in Costa Rica, but the authorities refused...
Linda Ronstadt: Lush Life (Asylum). Also starring Nelson Riddle and his orchestra. This is a sequel to last year's surprising smash, What's New, in which Ronstadt, her arranger-conductor and his orchestra proved that anything old could be renewed again, probably-given this kind of talent-in perpetuity. Lush Life is rather more playful and relaxed than its predecessor, as if the singer felt vindicated by her decision to refurbish some of pop's sturdiest standards. There is a kittenish sexuality singeing the edges of some of the twelve songs here; Mean to Me sounds...
Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox, who is a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, said the current administration will not grant the refugees asylum in the United States for political reasons...
...embarrassment occurred two days before the planned visit when 192 tourists left the Polish cruise liner Stefan Batory in Hamburg; many of them immediately began the quest for asylum. Their example was quickly followed. At week's end West German authorities reported that an additional 126 Poles had jumped ship from the ferry Rogalin when it docked in Travemünde, a town near the East German border...