Word: exoduses
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...Panicky Exodus. Despite the ringing words, the F.L.N. refusal to add specific guarantees to the Evian accord was discouraging to European liberals and non-F.L.N. Moslems. It enraged the S.A.O., whose transmitter broke into a regular...
Algeria radio program to announce that "the ban is now lifted" on the departure of European men of fighting age. The panicky exodus-already reaching 70,000 Europeans a week-was spurred by the threat that those who remained would have "no schools, no homes, no services." An S.A.O. rear guard promised to carry out the destruction of the emptied cities...
...yourself movement stirred irate protests from Moscow, where Pravda accused West Berlin authorities of "openly inciting subversive actions against peace." In fact, the exodus has been stepped up by East Germany's increasingly desperate food shortage. Blaming the situation on its lack of export credits rather than the abysmal failure of its collectivized agriculture, the regime last week urged the people to start growing food in their own backyards. Whether for food or freedom, it looked as if more and more East Germans would be out digging this summer...
...exodus to the New Jersey suburbs will be something new in the history of the Satmar congregation. The families are mostly Hungarian or Rumanian by birth; the congregation gets its name from the Rumanian village of Satmar, where Rabbi Teitelbaum, a descendant of a long line of Hasidic teachers, taught until World War II. The Satmar Jews are probably the strictest group in Orthodox Judaism. They will eat only kosher food that comes from their own stores. They refuse to watch television, will not ride in cars or use any mechanical device on the Sabbath, wear clothes that conform strictly...
...Communists have made little effort to stop the escapes; the exodus eases their food problem and at the same time serves as a safety valve against protest uprisings...