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...than four years of rambling speculation about his whereabouts, Bruno Pontecorvo, 41, could at last publicly answer the youngster's query, "Yes"-with a vengeance. In a bristling letter to Pravda, Pontecorvo wrote that he had left England because of "the sugar-coated blackmail of the police," found asylum in the U.S.S.R., where his brain had dwelt on "atomic energy for peaceful aims." He also sprang a surprise: he had won a secretly awarded Stalin Prize last year. Later, Pontecorvo, proud occupant of a Moscow flat and a country villa, waved a Soviet passport before newsmen and cried...
...Rumanian legation in Copenhagen, the Communists had trouble over another chauffeur. Driver Ion Cimpu, 25, asked the Danes for political asylum for himself and his bride of eight months, Maria, 21. But the Rumanians got wind of his plan, refused to part with Maria, instead produced her at a press conference, where she said she had never heard her husband talk of fleeing to the West. "Had I known, I would have killed him because such a thought is treason against our country," said Maria. "Now I only want to go back to Rumania as fast as possible, [because...
...influencing people." Was Noel Field a Communist, as testified by ex-Communist Courier Whittaker [Witness'] Chambers? Said Hermann: "I have never known whether Noel was . . ." Could Hermann explain why Noel and Herta, after doing a five-year stretch in a Hungarian prison, elected last November to stay in "asylum" in Hungary? And what about Erika, last reported to be languishing in a slave-labor camp in arctic Russia? Tearful Hermann Field was "afraid I'm not much help in an explanation of the whole Field case." Suggested he: "People who have not spent the last five years...
Nixon's wife Patricia did her share of friend-winning, too. She followed a womanly schedule of her own that took her to hospitals, orphanages, a school for blind children, an asylum for the deaf...
...ringleader, he said, was Colonel Francisco Cosenza, onetime Ambassador to Rome. Cosenza let lesser plotters launch the attack and, after satisfying himself that it had failed, scampered to asylum in the Salvadoran embassy. Grudge holders of other stripes also took part: Communists, rightists, disgruntled officers. The most surprising suspect was Colonel El-fego Monzón, who as army chief negotiated the peace with Castillo Armas after Arbenz stepped down. Monzón at first served on a governing junta with Castillo Armas, then drifted into the background, his loyalties unclear. His involvement in last week's dustup consisted...