Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Dante's Inferno, Communism has its different levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
Just where escaped Major General Plaku fits in all this, the outside world could not know. But if, as is probable, he was a Titoist intriguer in Albania who fled because he feared he had been discovered, his appearance in Belgrade at this moment was a little embarrassing to his host. Tito was just getting ready to send his own Defense Minister to Russia, and hurriedly hustled Plaku out of sight...
...dethroned Perón. Over the years the plotters brought in officers from the other services. They drew first blood from the dictatorship on June 16, 1955, when navy and air force planes bombed the Casa Rosada, the downtown presidential office building, killing 360. But Perón had fled minutes before to the neighboring Army Ministry...
...scheduled for about $250 million next year), his problems were enormous; e.g., his control over much of the country was disputed by Communist guerrillas and the private armies of dissident sects; his shaky, war-weakened economy was battered by the need to take care of thousands of refugees who fled Communism in the North...
...this year more than 33,000 immigrants have gone to Israel in the biggest wave in six years; before the year is out the figure is expected to reach 100,000. Many of the latest wave have come from Egypt; of 17,000 Jews who fled Egypt since the Israeli invasion of Sinai, 8,000 have gone to Israel. Other immigrants came from French North Africa, Poland, and the Arab Middle East. Many fled, fearing persecution; most arrived broke...