Word: fled
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Peking claims that the 1.2 million ethnic Chinese residents of Viet Nam, most of them merchants and shopkeepers, have been hit unfairly hard in a crackdown on private enterprise that Hanoi launched last April. It says that in the past two months 133,000 Chinese have fled from "barbarous treatment" in Viet Nam. Last week two Chinese ships steamed into the Gulf of Tonkin to pick up Chinese at three Vietnamese ports...
Refugees reaching China have told stories of being singled out for property confiscation by the Vietnamese, whose dislike for the Chinese derives from ten centuries of rule by China (111 B.C.-A.D. 939). But others who have fled to Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand insist that Hanoi's expropriation policy, though painful, has been uniformly applied...
When Konigsberg next met his boss, they hugged and kissed, and Konigsberg received an envelope stuffed with $15,000. Sinno also attended the friendly gathering. But within a few months, he became convinced that Provenzano was out to get him, too; he thereupon fled to the Midwest, where he hid under several aliases...
...second time in 14 months, Zaïre's Shaba region, once known as Katanga province, had been invaded by Katangese rebels who had fled to neighboring Angola in the mid-1960s and were now trying to regain their homeland. Everybody agreed that the Katangese had once fought for the Portuguese against the Angolan guerrilla armies but switched sides to the strongest of these groups, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, which later came to power. Even Castro conceded that throughout this period and until some time in early 1976, the Cubans in Angola...
Arnulfo Arias, ex-President of Panama who was ousted from power and fled the country ten years ago: "Exile and jail are good for you. Don't be scared of them...