Word: asylumed
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...Missing Bishop. Yet if virtually the whole hierarchy of the church was gathered in St. Peter's square, there were notable absences. Josef Cardinal Mindszenty languished through his sixth year of asylum in an upstairs room of the U.S. legation in Budapest. No one came from Red China. Only three of Czechoslovakia's 19 showed up, only 21 of Poland...
Presently he is working in a refugee school with Haven C. Roosevelt '62, director of last year's project. The school is for refugees from Mozambique, South Africa, and South West Africa who have fled from their native countries to seek political asylum...
...into Vyazma, a small town 150 miles west of Moscow. A group of collective farmers, goggling at a brightly lighted sleeper compartment, saw two young men cavorting in the raw on a table top; the farmers assumed they were watching the antics of mental patients en route to an asylum...
...lawyers challenged the legality of his expulsion, later applied in his behalf for a visa under the "law of return," which gives every Jew the right to enter Israel as an immigrant; both moves failed. In Britain, Soblen put in for a writ of habeas corpus and requested political asylum; after a jumble of unsuccessful appeals, and after the Israeli government-controlled El Al airline refused to fly him to the U.S.. the Home Office ordered him deported. Soblen appealed that order through the courts, got nowhere. Finally he sent a 20-page personal plea to Home Secretary Henry...
...they could not dull the delight of at least one jumper, Yugoslavia's Milan Knor, 23, who climaxed his part of the competition by asking for political asylum in the U.S. As for his showing in the championships (26th in 97), Knor might have explained to his departing teammates that it was not so bad. considering that he joined the team merely to get out of Communist Yugoslavia...