Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laos (pop. 3,000,000), some 700,000 people have been displaced since 1962. Many fled from their homes last year when North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao forces recaptured the Plain of Jars after ten days of fighting. Others have been driven from their villages by U.S. bombs. The terror of the Laotian bombings has been reflected in a series of refugees' drawings collected by Fred Branfman, formerly of the International Voluntary Services (see page...
...fish in the sea of humanity. Viet Cong terrorists viewed village officials as legitimate targets and the murder of innocent peasants as ideologically justified. "It is better to kill ten innocent persons," according to a Radio Hanoi slogan, "than to let one guilty person escape." Countless peasants fled their homes to escape terrorism. U.S. military power accelcrated the process. In adapting traditional weaponry to guerrilla warfare, military strategists placed heavy reliance on body counts and too little emphasis on the lives of innocent civilians...
...North, Ribicoff warned that the U.S. is moving toward apartheid as big cities throughout the nation turn increasingly black while suburbs remain white. He charged that Northern liberal politicians were guilty of "hypocrisy" and did not "have the guts to face their liberal white constituents, who have fled to the suburbs for the sole purpose of avoiding having their sons and daughters go to schools with blacks." All of the most likely Democratic presidential candidates voted with Ribicoff as his plan was defeated 51 to 35. The Senate later adopted the Stennis proposal-as it had a year...
Perhaps half the city's population has fled to outlying villages. With the lifting of army blockades at road and river ferry exits, the exodus is resuming. Those who remain venture outdoors only for urgent food shopping. Rice prices have risen 50% since the army reportedly started burning grain silos in some areas. In any case, 14 of the city's 18 food bazaars were destroyed. The usually jammed streets are practically empty, and no civil government is functioning...
...famed pediatrician, Gerhard grew up in New Haven and attended Yale. After graduation, he was undecided whether to go into medicine or law. To help his son make up his mind, Dr. Gesell invited him to attend a major surgical operation. Young Gesell stayed a few bloody minutes, then fled from the amphitheater. His mind was made...