Word: exoduses
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...result proved too much for irate right-wing M.P.s, and within hours of the Wembley vote, the exodus had started...
...Expanding short-term resource flow to private sector to discourage current capital exodus and strengthen sectoral confidence...
...they were known as the boat people. They seemed to be the ultimate casualties of the U.S. defeat in Viet Nam. Peasants and fisherfolk, small shopkeepers and traders, as well as former soldiers of Saigon's army, they fled the oppressive Hanoi regime in increasing numbers. Soon the exodus was joined by hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese, who were routed from their ancestral homes in Viet Nam in the spring of 1978 during a fierce outburst of anti-Chinese racism by Hanoi. More than a quarter of a million people who left Viet Nam by boat - most...
...apparently, were they concerned about the exodus. Said a church spokesman last week at W.C.G. headquarters in Pasadena, Calif.: "We have always had the prerogative to interfere with the magazine. It doesn't matter to us if people have resigned." Says Shnayerson: "I feel very sad about the loss of some good work. It is sort of like walking up to a painting and putting your foot through...
...nationalist guerrillas still under arms. It was feared that his conviction might spark a violent reaction from ZANU militants. On the other hand, his acquittal seemed likely to enrage the country's 190,000 whites, prompting charges of a political fix and accelerating a white exodus that is now running at a rate of more than 1,000 a month. Wary of all these dangers, Mugabe insisted that the law should take its course...