Word: fled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fire!" shouted the troop commander, and the riflemen shot point-blank into the massed, unarmed students. By the time the volley ended, nine students and two bystanders had been killed; dozens were wounded (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The paraders fled. Still a mystery at week's end was the answer to the question: Who fired the fatal first shot...
...nervously over their shoulders last week, as the pro-Communist government of President Jacobo Arbenz began to crack down on its opponents. A dozen prominent citizens made sudden dashes for asylum in foreign embassies; hundreds went into hiding. The country's leading aviator climbed into his Cessna and fled to El Salvador. The chief of the anti-Communist Workers Committee, newly named to the post after the body of the former chief was found floating in Lake Atitlán, disappeared. Plain-clothes police bustled around the capital, searching houses, running down fugitives, laying ambushes at embassy entrances, swooping...
Servan-Schreiber, who speaks fluent English, has become one of France's outstanding political pundits. The son of a co-owner of Les Echos, Paris' oldest financial paper, Servan-Schreiber fled France during the war, trained as a pilot in the U.S., and flew with the Free French Air Force. His first political article, submitted to France's leading daily, Le Monde, caused so much comment that he went into journalism...
...Further Study. In Philadelphia, two bandits held up the Rev. Ralph Valerio, went through his pockets, took $1, grabbed his Bible, fled...
...trip. When after several days of balloting it became obvious that he was going to be elected Pope, he fled in consternation from his fellow cardinals. Msgr. Merry del Val, later his Secretary of State, found him in the Pauline Chapel on his knees, his head buried in his hands. "Monsignor, you can persuade them. Tell them not to vote for me," Sarto pleaded. When the commander of the Noble Guard went to take his first orders, the new Pope offered him a chair with his own hands. When the commander protested, the Pope said sadly: "It was nice...