Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain (the only other countries that fly to Cuba). There are long lists of people waiting to leave. Desperation has forced many to brave the Florida straits in fragile crafts. More than 15.000 Cubans have reached the U.S. coast in this way. The case of a young soldiers who fled Cuba in the nose wheel landing compartment of a Spanish airliner certainly is memorable...
This solution began to come unstuck almost as soon as it was pieced together. Souvanna's Neutralist army immediately split in two, half staying with the Premier and the balance joining the Pathet Lao. Pathet Lao ministers in Vientiane, rightfully fearing assassination, fled to the Plain of Jars in 1963 and formed a rump government. The right wing made a bid to seize full power in 1964. At that time, the U.S. dropped its backing of the rightists and swung its support to Souvanna. The idea of tripartite rule was dead...
...speech, he demanded immediate West German recognition of the Communist German Democratic Republic as a separate and sovereign nation. That was not new, but he also added an old demand that West Germany thought had been abandoned: $27.3 billion in reparations for the 2,600,000 East Germans who fled to the West between 1949 and 1961, when the erection of the Berlin Wall cut escape routes...
...Paris. A fragile beauty whose wedding to Youssoupoff in 1914 mirrored all the pomp and splendor of the Romanoff empire, Princess Irina was hundreds of miles away on the evening, two years later, when her husband poisoned, shot and bludgeoned to death the Mad Monk. Soon afterward the couple fled to England, where in 1934 Irina made world headlines by winning a $125,000 libel suit against Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for the film Rasputin and the Empress, which depicted her as having been raped by Rasputin...
Last week a five-man military court was convened for that purpose in Saigon. Neither of the accused turned up; Ho had fled the country and Chau had retreated to the National Assembly building. The kangaroo court got under way an hour before schedule, and by the time Chau's lawyer turned up at 9 a.m. it was all over; he was even denied the right to speak because he was late. Ho was sentenced to death, and Chau to 20 years' imprisonment...