Word: fled
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Some 700,000 largely middle-class Cuban refugees have fled their Communist-dominated island home for the U.S. since Fidel Castro took power. Of these, 430,000 have settled in southern Florida's Dade County, where they were initially welcomed with sympathy and federal relocation grants. The Cubans have long since spread out from Little Havana. Neighboring Hialeah (pop. 133,000) is 65% Latin, and the Cubans have moved on to such well-tended suburbs as Coral Gables, Kendall and Westchester. They have prospered mightily, prompting Cuban Writer José Sanchez-Boudy to boast with only slight hyperbole...
...Cuban middle class, hatching deals over lunch at Little Havana's American Club or lounging on weekends at the Big Five Club, life in the U.S. is a dream that grew out of a nightmare. Says Frank Soler, 35, who fled to the U.S. at age 17 and is now editor of El Miami Herald, a Spanish-language edition of the Miami Herald with a daily circulation of 50,000: "Suddenly we lost everything and were confronted with potential poverty and hunger. Fear spurred us to work our tails off to regain what we once had." Result...
...political emotions are fading. Says Alex Robles, a prosperous home-builder who fled Cuba in 1960: "To move back would be just as big a dislocation as coming here. I wouldn't go through the pain." As Mario Vizcaino, director of the city's Cuban National Planning Council, puts it: "Ten years ago, to become an American citizen was almost an act of betrayal. Now there is a growing awareness of voting power, that the voting booth is the place to get things done." Coupled with that attitude is a developing feeling that perhaps the U.S. is, after...
...statistics of destruction were appalling. More than 35,000 houses were demolished in the shelling, which soon spread from the city to the hills north of Beirut. The U.S. Embassy was hit by shells, and two Marine guards were wounded. Some two-thirds of the 600,000 Christian residents fled, leaving behind thousands of others cowering in the basements of wrecked buildings without food, water, electricity or communications with the outside world. Unable to minister to the wounded, hospitals turned into morgues, reeking with the stench of decomposing bodies. Said a shaken President Elias Sarkis, in a terse summation...
...thing that is most notably different about Laos today: there are fewer people. In proportion to the country's small population (roughly 3 million), the exodus has been staggeringly large. Since the spring of 1975, around 140,000 Laotians have fled to refugee camps in Thailand-in recent months, most of them by paying $150 to secure a nighttime passage on boats plying the Mekong River. Although Pathet Lao soldiers often shoot at those who attempt the crossing (four died in one incident two weeks ago), an estimated 2,500 to 4,000 people seek refuge in Thailand every...