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Late in the Game. Of particular concern to the U.S. embassy-where he enjoyed asylum for several weeks last year-is Thich Tri Quang, a frail, hot-eyed monk who heads the Institute of Buddhist Clergy. Quang has managed to confuse everyone about his political loyalties, but he masterminded last summer's Buddhist strategy against Diem and is now thought to be a leader of the militant monks exhorting Buddhists to "assert" themselves. What worries the U.S. is the possibility that they will assert themselves for neutralism-and the question of why they have failed to assert themselves against...
After last November's coup, in which Diem and Nhu were murdered,* Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate at Hué, but was turned over to the military junta. Vietnamese newspapers splashed lurid accounts and dubious photographs alleging that Can ran a private dungeon and torture camp on his thousand-acre estate near...
...what of the man himself? With his beautiful wife and two small children, João Goulart is in Uruguay, living in a small Montevideo hotel. Uruguay has granted him asylum, and he is reportedly looking for a permanent home. His far-leftist brother-in-law, Leonel Brizola, is still at large somewhere in southern Brazil, possibly on his own Fazenda Aceguá, a sprawling sheep and cattle ranch straddling the Brazil-Uruguay border...
...Russian exchange student granted asylum in the United States in January departed for the Soviet Union yesterday, having decided to return even before the end of his official stay at Harvard as a member of the Soviet-American cultural exchange program...
Asseyev has reportedly been under great emotional stress since the January incident and his subsequent decision to seek asylum in this country. He has a wife and child in the Soviet Union, and there was some doubt about the success of any attempts to bring them to this country...