Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said, "Fine." The ready-to-die cultists hugged both lawyers. Lane had another apt thought. "Is there any way out?" he asked. The armed men pointed into the bush and said the road to Port Kaituma lay in that direction. The attorneys plunged into the jungle. As they fled, they heard Jones shouting...
...rumored to keep some $3 million in cash at his commune raised a mystery as to whether large amounts of money were missing. The passports far exceeded the number of bodies first reported to have been found in Jonestown, promoting belief that hundreds more of the cultists had fled into the jungle...
...gloves, started shooting through the door of a home in Richmond, Calif. The occupant, a black woman named Mary Matthews, 56, fired back with the .38-cal. revolver she kept by her bed. One man fell, killed by a burst of machine-gun fire-from behind. The two others fled. The dead man turned out to be a Panther...
...between Tanzania and Uganda have been edgy for several years. After Amin seized power in a 1971 military coup, Nyerere offered sanctuary to ousted President Milton Obote, who still lives in an ocean-front home in Dar es Salaam. Obote was soon joined by 20,000 refugees who had fled the Ugandan tyrant's bloodthirsty attempts to wipe out all opposition. A year later, the exiles staged a poorly organized coup attempt against Amin, who has never forgiven Nyerere for backing his enemies. In one sneering telegram, Amin told the Tanzanian President, "I love you very much...
Woods, who fled his country after the government placed him under a ban last October, advised the students to "intensify" their struggle against Harvard's moral and financial links to South Africa...