71.   When the mother died in her attempt to choose freedom for herself and her son, the initial U.S. public reaction was to grant him asylum.

72.   Palestinian officials demanded Wednesday that Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon ease restrictions and grant temporary asylum to Palestinians expelled by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

73.   President Clinton vowed to protect Jordan against any Iraqi reprisal for granting the asylum.

74.   Panama has not said whether it would grant him asylum.

75.   Presidential spokesman Alejandro Fiallos said Thursday that asylum was granted at the petition of Cuban-American businessmen and Cuban exiles living here.

76.   Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori has said he might allow the Marxist hostage-takers to leave Peru if a third country grants them asylum.

77.   Poland refused to extradite Stankevich to Russia in March, and decided in November to grant him asylum, said his legal adviser, Wojciech Koszutski.

78.   A Bahraini military pilot who defected to neighboring Qatar was granted asylum Tuesday, a Foreign Ministry official said.

79.   Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, has been looking for a country to grant him asylum since last year.

80.   After the request was rejected, a Russian military attache in Belgrade said Moscow might grant Mladic asylum.