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...Asylum or Asthma. Other speculation places Che at home in Cuba - but at odds with Castro, partly because Che preaches a tough pro-Chinese, anti-Russian line, partly because Castro blames him for Cuba's continuing economic chaos. One report has it that he quarreled with Castro at a party in the Soviet embassy, sought asylum there to avoid Fidel's wrath. A second version has Che hiding out in the Mexican embassy. He is variously supposed to have been executed at Castro's orders, slapped into prison, demoted to a junior job. However, the theory that...
...minutes later, Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 44, approached a U.S. Army sergeant outside the snack bar of the nearby American-sector PX, identified himself as the chief of the Polish Military Mission to West Berlin, and asked for political asylum...
...about over. Deciding that they were licked, most of the leaders of the army revolt trooped into the U.S. embassy, asked U.S. Ambassador Tapley Bennett to arrange a ceasefire. He called Wessin y Wessin, who immediately agreed. Fearing reprisals, dozens of rebels, including Acting President Molina, fled to political asylum in foreign embassies. A junta composed of pro-Wessin y Wessin officers was sworn in as a provisional government...
...Bourguiba had infuriated Middle East Arabs by rallying North Africa to reject Nasser's campaign against West Germany. Now Bourguiba's Arab critics were angrier than ever. Government radios, from Baghdad to Cairo, blasted Bourguiba as a traitor, a madman "who should be locked in an asylum," and as a Judas "who should be immediately executed." Mobs blossomed in the streets of half a dozen Arab capitals. In Cairo, 20,000 students charged across the Nile bridge to Gezira Island and tried to burn down the Tunisian embassy. In Jerusalem, Bourguiba Street was hastily renamed by Jordanian authorities...
...charges against him do not include such political crimes as jailing and torturing his opponents. Because of the niceties of political asylum, the U.S. agreed to extradite P.J. to Venezuela only if he were to be tried on standard criminal charges. Even so, the indictment was hardly standard. His offense, according to the state, was to have "misused" $13 million in government funds...