Word: exoduses
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...Canadian Mounted Police. The Mounties said they had nabbed Charles J. McVey II, 57, a businessman-fugitive on the U.S. Customs Service's ten-most-wanted list. The Canadian cops found him in Teslin, Yukon Territory, a hamlet 850 miles north of Vancouver. McVey was a target of Operation Exodus, an effort to stop sales of Western high-tech goods to the Eastern bloc...
...exodus of the black middle class from the inner city compounds the agony of those left behind. The victims range from a Newark family trapped in a morass of crime and self- destruction to a would- be model in Los Angeles slain by random gang violence. -- Reagan, both apologetic and defiant, tries toregain command. -- The fight over the Bork nomination heats...
...country would limit payments on its $14.3 billion foreign debt to 10% of Peru's export earnings. Last week he dropped another economic bombshell. During a traditional Independence Day speech to the Congress, Garcia said that in order to halt the growing flight of capital from Peru -- an exodus depriving the country of much needed funds for investment -- he intends to nationalize all banks and insurance companies and shut down private currency- exchange houses. Furthermore, selling dollars in the streets would be made a criminal offense. Only foreign banks with branches in Peru, such as Citicorp and BankAmerica, would...
...named several native Taiwanese to high posts in his party, the legislature remains largely closed to them. Only 64 of the 319 seats in the Yuan are filled by election; nearly all the remaining 255 seats are held indefinitely by mainlanders who were elected in China before the 1949 exodus...
Americans are flocking back to Europe. -- Citicorp, Ford and ITT join the exodus from South Africa. -- The Toshiba scandal grows...