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<text id=91TT2824>
<title>
Dec. 23, 1991: World Notes:Fugitives
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Dec. 23, 1991 Gorbachev:A Man Without A Country
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
WORLD, Page 31
World Notes
FUGITIVES
Where Next? Chechen?
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<p> Where is a failed communist to go these days? Ousted East
German leader Erich Honecker thought he had found a safe haven
in the Soviet Union. But last week Russian President Boris
Yeltsin said Honecker, 79, had to leave.
</p>
<p> The East German quickly found a friend: Clodomiro Almeyda,
the Chilean ambassador to Moscow, who had been given refuge in
East Germany following the bloody 1973 coup in Chile. Almeyda
invited Honecker to stay in his embassy while he asked his
government to give Honecker asylum. Then came Santiago's
response: no.
</p>
<p> The German government has formally requested Ho necker's
return, but if truth be told, the Germans hope he will not come.
A trial would give Honecker a chance to claim political
persecution, and he could prove an embarrassment.
</p>
<p> At week's end the East German still had two options: North
Korea offered temporary refuge, while permanent sanctuary was
held out by Dzhokhar Dudayev, the President of the tiny,
self-proclaimed Chechen republic (which broke away from Russia's
Chechen-Ingush region). A staunch anticommunist, Dudayev said
he offered his hospitality "to save the honor of both Gorbachev
and Yeltsin."
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