Word: exodus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
Algeria radio program to announce that "the ban is now lifted" on the departure of European men of fighting age. The panicky exodus-already reaching 70,000 Europeans a week-was spurred by the threat that those who remained would have "no schools, no homes, no services." An S.A.O. rear guard promised to carry out the destruction of the emptied cities...
...yourself movement stirred irate protests from Moscow, where Pravda accused West Berlin authorities of "openly inciting subversive actions against peace." In fact, the exodus has been stepped up by East Germany's increasingly desperate food shortage. Blaming the situation on its lack of export credits rather than the abysmal failure of its collectivized agriculture, the regime last week urged the people to start growing food in their own backyards. Whether for food or freedom, it looked as if more and more East Germans would be out digging this summer...
...exodus to the New Jersey suburbs will be something new in the history of the Satmar congregation. The families are mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly...
...beginning of the week to 81½ on Thursday, closed on Friday at 98. Even blue-chip A.T.& T. had a hard week, sliding from 109 to 105⅞. Said Sidney B. Lurie, a partner in Manhattan's Joseph-thai & Co.: "There's a mass exodus on the part of investors. The professionals raised their cash earlier in the year; now the amateurs are getting...