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...aliens, who had been apprehended as they entered the U.S., at federal prisons and abandoned military bases in Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Texas, New York and Puerto Rico. Previously, immigration policy had been to release such illegal aliens on parole while the courts examined their appeals for political asylum or other legal status...
...afraid that his life might be in danger, and some of his associates, cooperating with the U.S. Marshals Service, began feeding that fear. Bit by bit, Wilson was persuaded that he would be welcome in the Dominican Republic, where, his associates assured him, the government would grant him asylum...
...opens, and the commercials excite his desire for the wealth flaunted by Nick Shadow. At the end, having fought off one devil, Tom gazes at the other-a TV screen-with fellow mental patients. In a chilling coup de théátre, the principals are led into the asylum, gibbering as they warn of the dangers of idle minds. All are pacified by the set's flickering light: the very picture of the modern family, at peace in front of the hearth...
DIED. Peter Weiss, 65, reclusive, German-born playwright who wrote the shocking tour de force, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration...
...what the Tsar and Tsarina believed him to be: the savior of Holy Russia. But even if Rasputin had been an angel, he would have been too late. "A kind of frenzy has seized people," Princess Catherine Radziwill wrote in 1913. Russia had turned into a "very large lunatic asylum" of manic searchers, from table-tapping spiritualists to bomb-tossing anarchists. The whole country seemed possessed by demons and redeemers-and who could tell the difference...