Word: escapee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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No Relenting. At the extradition hearings two weeks ago, Tshombe described himself bitterly as "a victim of my popularity," vaguely blamed the CIA for having a hand in his plight, and vowed: "I will go back to the Congo because I am a man." He may not have much choice...
Prisoners screamed for Lovett to unlock the cage. The same key used to open the gun cabinet was the one needed to unlock the padlock at the barracks, and Lovett did not have it. While he watched, helpless, flames rolled across the ceiling, turning metal fixtures red hot. Some prisoners...
The 2,500 elephants that roam South Africa's huge Kruger National Park are normally friendly enough. Last week however, even park rangers kept their distance from the beasts. One elephant recently sat down on a Volkswagen and flattened it, though the two German tourists inside had time to...
The infectious disease center where researchers will study such diseases as malaria and typhus will be equipped with its own air exhaust system and an electronic incinerator to insure that no contaminants escape into the outside air. The rest of the building will make use of three separate air exhaust...
Died. Adolf Johannes de la Rey, 91, South African cattle farmer and provincial politician, who in 1899, as a Boer War guerrilla, captured a British journalist named Winston S. Churchill, a misfortune that Churchill subsequently observed "was to lay the foundations of my later life," when his escape within four...