Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Untouchables remain the most backward group in a still backward land. India's literacy rate of 25% is shocking enough, but it drops to 10% among the Untouchables. More than one-third of the Untouchables are landless farm laborers toiling for 260 a day. Those who have fled to the cities, where they can enjoy urban anonymity, find caste still much in evidence. Though the government is supposed to reserve 12.5% of all its job openings for them, only 2% of New Delhi's top-echelon officials and 3% of its legions of clerks are harijans...
...drugs he took, the lousy pic- tures he made. He claimed that when he first viewed Tammy and the Doc- tor, he vomited. The bombing of The Victors and Lilith did not sweeten a pesonality that seemed to have sand under its skin. Reality was to be fled; Peter became the acidhead of the house. "In those days, it wasn't an il legal drug," he says. "It was pure, non-chromosome-breaking, non-habit-forming, nondangerous. So I dropped 500 micrograms and never came back...
...things that is clear is that Riha disappeared shortly after his wife Hana, 25, fled their house, her clothes smelling of ether, crying that someone was trying to do her in. At that time, Riha and Hana had sued each other for divorce. A $5,000 judgment was finally awarded Hana. but only after Riha had vanished...
...present. Israeli losses from shelling on the Suez have plummeted from a monthly peak of 30 killed and 76 wounded in July to 5 killed and 20 wounded last month. The Egyptian side of the canal, meanwhile, has been deserted by frightened Egyptians. At least 400,000 have fled or moved out at government order...
...Politics in Exile. One person who has no future in peacetime Nigeria, or perhaps anywhere in Africa, is Ojukwu. After he fled the country, reports placed him in Lisbon, Paris, Geneva, Lusaka, Dar es Salaam, Libreville, São Tomé and Port-au-Prince. According to the story that emerged last week, Ojukwu was flown out of Uli to Abidjan, capital of the Ivory Coast. At the Abidjan airport, he transferred to an executive jet belonging to Ivory Coast President Felix Houphouet-Boigny and was flown 250 miles to the President's summer palace at Yamoussoukro, which...