Word: exodusing
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...Phnom-Penh and pledged itself to annihilate the oncoming "Vietnamese clique." Within hours after that brave statement, Phnom-Penh had fallen, the Pol Pot government and many of its soldiers were in flight, and foreign diplomats together with nearly 700 Chinese and North Korean advisers were beating a hasty exodus from the deserted city toward the Thailand border town of Aranyaprathet...
...Shah were to go, of course, there could be a mass exodus, especially if a new regime proved actively xenophobic. For now, Americans generally try to stay off the streets and out of harm's way. Such precaution has become more and more sensible as they have been increasingly subjected to threats, insults and assaults by Iranians angered at Washington's support of the Shah. Many Americans have received threatening letters, shoved under a door or placed under a car windshield wiper. One anonymous letter warned several American families in the central city of Isfahan: "If you think...
...exodus of Americans and other foreigners from Iran continued yesterday, although the level of violence tapered off drastically. There were no reports of clashes anywhere in the country yesterday...
Westerners, especially Americans, have become a symbol of foreign support for the shah, and anti-West hostility has touched off a mass exodus of some 9000 foreigners, including about 6000 Americans...
Despite the hazards of escape and escape, never since the massive exodus following the fall of Saigon in 1975 has the South China Sea been so strewn with refugees seeking safe harbor. "The flow is so great," reports TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein, "that countries in the area are becoming increasingly reluctant to accept new arrivals, even temporarily. And as the tide of refugees rises, it is straining the ability-and the willingness -of more distant nations to grant them permanent asylum...