Aliens — Asylum — Entitlement to — Escape from East-Bloc country — Likelihood of prosecution for escaping if ever returned — Whether sufficient ground for granting of asylum

Aliens — Refugees — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951 — Article 1F(b) and (c) — Non-application of Convention to persons suspected of serious non-political crimes and acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations — Whether aircraft hijacker automatically excluded from benefits of Convention — Relevance of purpose of hijacking

Treaties — Effect in municipal law — Constitutional limitations — Geneva Convention Relating to Status of Refugees, 1951 — Whether capable of limiting right to asylum under Basic Law of Federal Republic — Status of Convention under federal law

War and armed conflict — Terrorism — Hijacking — Hague Convention for the Suppression of the Unlawful Seizure of Aircraft, 1970 — European Convention on the Suppression of Terrorism, 1977 — Whether automatically excluding hijacker from entitlement to asylum — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany