Word: fled
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...Slansky and the American Noel Field. Charging his rival with "political blindness" in having once befriended Field. Ulbricht seized Dahlem in May 1953. At first Dahlem was jailed, then sent to an East German hospital for observation. Dahlem's fortune ebbed further in 1954 when his son Robert fled to the West. Dahlem was ordered to the Soviet Union for a "rest." Since that time, the face of Russian Communism, which once glared at the world through the single, impassive mask of Stalin, has assumed a variety of new expressions...
...bloody revolution. At 20 he was wounded in Bolivia's Chaco War with Paraguay. At 27 he helped found the Movement of National Revolution (M.N.R.). the mildly leftist party that now runs Bolivia. During the next decade he was exiled twice by anti-M.N.R. governments, fled the country twice more to escape imprisonment. In 1951 he slipped back into Bolivia from exile to direct the campaign that brought a plurality that year to exiled M.N.R. Presidential Candidate Victor Paz Estenssoro. When the army nullified the election. Siles led a workers' uprising, defeated the military in three days...
Died. Louis Raemaekers, 87, famed Dutch cartoonist whose savage World War I propaganda drawings for Amsterdam's De Telegraaf inflamed Allied emotions and endangered Holland's neutrality; in Scheveningen, The Netherlands. Bearded, mild-mannered Artist Raemaekers maintained his hatred of Germans through the years of uneasy peace, fled to the U.S. ahead of the Nazi invaders in 1940 to draw war cartoons briefly for New York City's tabloid PM. Half-German himself, Louis Raemaekers said in 1917: "It would be better ... if all the Germans could be wiped off the face of the earth...
There is danger of a sample drawn from refugees being unrepresentative of the population inside the Soviet Union, the Report's preface concedes. But only a minority of these refugees (about 40 per cent) claim to have fled the Soviet Union voluntarily, it adds...
Crag to Crag. In Wauwatosa, Wis., Mrs. Joan Buge, 50, was fined $35 for negligent operation of a car and $15 for disorderly conduct after she drove away from an accident scene, fled from the police station as she was being booked, was fished out of a drugstore phone booth two blocks away, leaped out of a squad car on the way to the county jail when it stopped at a railroad crossing, lay down on the tracks until three patrolmen got her back in the car, clung to the side of the car at the jail...