Word: exoduses
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...commemorating the survival of the Children of Israel during their 40 years of wandering in the wilderness. The pilgrims apparently assumed that by this time next year the Sinai would again be under the control of Egypt, and they might be denied access to the site where, according to Exodus, God spoke to Moses from a burning bush...
...Maronite Christians, rescue workers picked through the rubble in search of the dead and dying. Glassy-eyed survivors crept cautiously out of basement shelters, scurrying back to safety when Syrian snipers cut loose with automatic weapons. A number of would-be refugees, seeking to join the exodus that has emptied East Beirut of more than two-thirds of its residents, were mowed down by Syrian machine guns as they tried to cross the bridges leading to Christian strongholds outside the city. Five other people were wounded as they attempted to cross the "green line" separating Muslim and Christian sections...
THERE was great joy in Mudville when Pennsylvania Gov. Milton Shapp announced in August 1976 that Volkswagen would locate its first major U.S. assembly plant in his state. There was joy, first, because the VW decision bucked a trend of industrial exodus from pennsylvania and the whole Graybelt (the declining Northeast corridor), an exodus brought on by the antiquation of the area's facilities, physical constraints on expansion, the relatively high tax load and union wages. There was joy, second, because Pennsylvania had beaten out Ohio in the VW selection process...
...countercurrent of refugees is a mere trickle compared with the tide of 350,000 that swept into Portugal shortly before Angola became independent in 1975. Nonetheless, the reverse exodus is a sign that life in Angola is returning to some form of normality. According to reports from returnees who have resettled in various parts of the country, Angolan President Agostinho Neto's Cuban-backed government has finally prevailed over two rival revolutionary groups: Hoiden Roberto's National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.) and Jonas Savimbi's National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA...
...regime. Declared a UNITA representative in Lisbon last week: "The Portuguese know the country, and through them Neto could recuperate; UNITA does not want them to go." Claiming that four people who went back to Angola had already been taken prisoner by UNITA forces, he warned that any mass exodus would put the returnees "in grave danger." That seemed to be an empty threat since most returnees are settling in areas well out of UNITA control...