Word: exoduses
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...overshadowed by a gradual exodus off the bench and on to the court by a group of players whose backgrounds would require years of research...
...underscored the extent of their responsibility for Lebanon last week when they stepped in to help the International Red Cross arrange the evacuation of some 2,500 Christian militiamen and 5,000 civilians from the mountain town of Deir al Qamar. Israeli armor and infantry provided cover for the exodus. Even so, there were some tense moments as Druze militiamen, waving their rifles, jeered the Phalangists, who had been bundled into Israeli trucks. The Christians were eventually taken by ship from the Israeli-occupied port of Sidon to Christian-controlled areas around Beirut...
...Maynard, Mass., and valued at more than $2.5 million, the VAX is the most precious cargo to be seized during the Reagan Administration's 25-month drive to block the illegal shipment of sophisticated machinery to the Soviet world. But it is not the first such catch. "Operation Exodus," a special task force involving 300 full-time customs agents, has confiscated more than 2,300 illegal shipments worth nearly $150 million since its launching in 1981. Still, the leaks seem to appear as fast as authorities can plug them. In West Germany alone, according to CIA Director William Casey...
...When the Portuguese left in 1975," sighed a resident of the capital of Luanda, "they didn't go gracefully." Indeed, the exodus of some 350,000 Portuguese after independence stripped the country of its only trained personnel and plunged it deeply into civil war. Today the signs of that hasty evacuation are written into Luanda's decay...
...violent criminals and former mental patients, forced by President Fidel Castro to leave the country. "Two groups were on the boatlift: those who came and those who were sent," explains Miami-based Painter Victor Gomez, who says he arranged to be falsely classified as a delinquent to join the exodus. "It was Castro's diabolical strategy to give all Cuban exiles a bad image and get rid of antisocials...