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...carries over, sometimes not. The U.S. has fallen behind in negotiating extradition treaties with new nations, and there are now about 50 with which no treaties exist. Algeria is one of them, and Washington gave up attempts to retrieve Parole Violater Eldridge Cleaver, who took refuge there. Another African asylum is Southern Rhodesia, which broke away from Britain in 1965. Louis Steinberg, 50, indicted in Chicago on charges of check kiting and embezzlement, is reported to be in Salisbury with a suitcase full of cash...
...rule, cover minor offenses, those punishable by fines or short prison terms. Nor do they include orders that enforce civil judgments. Most important, political crimes are excluded. Thus, if a fugitive can convince the host country that his crime is political, then he has the right of asylum...
...official name is "the Workshop," and it is run by a rather smarmy doctor and a highly officious nurse. The atmosphere is somewhat reminiscent of the mental asylum in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The men do the simplest kind of make-work. While their presence is voluntary, they are psychically crippled by a desperate need for safety and a deep fear of being objects of ridicule, scorn or pity in the outside world...
...decision: Respect for academic asylum was to end. The group in the police headquarters would carry out the technical aspects of the capture of the institute...
Inside, the Institute professors made rounds with students to make sure that the facilities remained intact. At the same time the faculty senate appealed to the government to respect academic asylum at a grave personal risk...