Word: fled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wherever you are, we will get you." These words, beamed to Sweden over the Soviet-controlled Estonian radio, haunted the memories of a 21-year-old housewife and her friends seeking entry into the U.S. last week. They were the leitmotif of a journey that had seemed endless. "I fled from Estonia to Finland because of the Germans," said the girl, on Ellis Island. "A year later, in 1944, I fled from Finland to Sweden because of the Russians." Her shipmates-steelwork-ers, a glassblower, weavers, seamstresses, mechanics, lawyers, farmers, fishermen-had similar tales to tell. An Estonian farmer told...
...guerrillas recoup so quickly was explained last week by a Greek officer, who told this story of a guerrilla chieftain named Ypsilantis: "Last year 400 of Ypsilantis' band of 720 surrendered to me. By combat we reduced the remainder of his band to only five, and Ypsilantis fled to Albania. But I had also captured Ypsilantis' girl friend Sophia, who was very pretty. Seeing in her eyes that she was still with Greece at heart, I proposed to let her escape to follow Ypsilantis and report to me what he did. She went to Albania and sent...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...
Many Names. Vidali was born near Trieste, about 50 years ago. After Mussolini marched on Rome in 1922 Vidali got away to Moscow, for three years of study. In 1926, as Emilio Sormenti, he turned up in the U.S. and in 1927 fled to avoid deportation. Ten years later, in the Spanish civil war, he was Carlos Contreras, commissar of the Fifth Loyalist Regiment. After Spain he was based in Mexico...
...Greek Government believed that Markos had fled into Albania. Wherever he was, the backbone of his.government of "Free Greece" was broken. Greek army sources reckoned that it would take a few weeks to complete mopping up in the Grammos area; they expected the roundup of other rebel groups scattered throughout the country to be completed by the end of the year...