Word: exoduses
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...Shanghai has slipped to 30% from the usual overbooked 120% this time of year. A planned visit by President Bush and a World Economic Forum event have been scrubbed. "The drop-off in visitors is worse than 1989," grumbles a Shanghai foreign-affairs official, referring to the foreign exodus after the Tiananmen crackdown...
...vicinity of the capital, but that number will steadily rise. The U.S. plans to communicate to Baghdad residents through leaflets and radio and TV broadcasts that Saddam's rule is all but finished. Civilians would be allowed to leave the city, but officials say they would not encourage an exodus, for fear of the chaos and displacement that would create. "We want them to stay at home; we want them to help us," a Pentagon official says...
NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...
...crossing a bridge on foot, presumably to escape the besieged city. Witnesses said Iraqi troops, led by some of the 1,000 members of the Fedayeen who were holding out in the city, opened fire with machine guns, apparently fearful that the residents' departure would set off a civilian exodus from the city, inviting a British invasion. The Black Watch Regiment fired on the Iraqi positions in a bid to halt the attacks; while some civilians made it to safety, others were forced back into the city. In Basra and in al Zubayr to the south, British troops staged surgical...
NOWHERE IN AFRICA. This year’s Oscar winner for best foreign film sheds new light on the exodus of one small group German Jewish refugees in the late 1930s. It’s the tale of Walter Redlich, a Jewish lawyer who goes to Africa to live with the European expatriate community (which is now mostly Jewish) in and around Nairobi. After opening with scenes of his family’s comfortable home life back in Germany, the film depicts the Redlichs adapt to their new home on a desolate Kenyan farm and struggle with relationships between family...