Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vlasta refused to go along when the rest of her family fled or to join them later because, she now says, she did not want to leave her home and country. She also claims she was advised by Czech legal authorities that she would be able to get her children back. Vlasta filed for divorce in Czechoslovakia, sued for the custody of the children, and asked the International Red Cross to help her get them back...
...Cambodia, government troops continued to give ground to the North Vietnamese troops, who now control most of the northeastern countryside. At Krek, 2,500 Cambodian troops simply fled when the 10,000 South Vietnamese troops that had been operating with them in the former Communist "sanctuaries" were abruptly called home by Saigon. The Cambodians reportedly left so much equipment behind that U.S. aircraft were called upon to bomb it before it could be captured by the North Vietnamese...
...received thousands of applications, many from out of state, including a number from Oklahomans who fled to California during the Dust Bowl days of the '30s. Many Viet Nam veterans applied, along with at least one out-of-work aerospace engineer. Despite the trend toward agribusiness, there is a widespread nostalgia for the land. Another applicant is a $190-a-week television film editor who lives in a suburb of Boston. "It's a chance for me to work at something that would be my very own," he wrote. "I'm sick of pollution, demonstrations and riots...
...works as a weather forecaster for a local radio station and private industry. Like many Americans in his trade, Frederick learned his meteorology in the U.S. Air Force. Unlike many, however, Frederick, disillusioned with the U.S., left the Air Force 2½ years before his hitch was up and fled to Canada rather than accept his country's involvement in Viet Nam. Nor does he wish to return to stay. He scorns the notion of an amnesty because it suggests he is guilty of something (see TIME ESSAY, next page). "I don't think I did anything wrong...
...forces in Bangladesh; the rest are expected to stay on perhaps another three or four months to keep order and help with reconstruction. Indian and Bangladesh officials laid the groundwork for an even more massive migration-the return home of the 10 million Bengali refugees who had fled to India to escape roughshod repression by the Pakistani army...