Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...West Bank, with intense economic aid, could theoretically absorb all the Palestinian refugees; nonetheless, the new entity should have the right to impose immigration quotas. Palestinians who fled what is now Israel after 1948 would receive compensation for land they were forced to abandon. So would Jews who quit their Arab homelands and settled in Israel. The size of the payments would be set by an international commission created for this purpose and be financed by a multinational consortium, which would include Israel and the Arab states...
...outdoor recreation needs new leader w/achieved academic excellence and interest in town-gown harmony. Experience in running state institutions helpful; Predecessor Brage Golding was capable administrator but fought ceaselessly with divided 23-member trustee board (half appointed by Governor Jerry Brown, half by former Governor Ronald Reagan); Golding fled to Kent State, attributing fondness for Ohio to fact that "the state legislature there meets only once every two years." Salary: $41,000 to $55,000. Use of state car and box at football stadium. Apply San Diego State University...
...when she could. Sick of the life after six weeks, she tried to leave her pimp, but he broke her jaw. After hospitalization, she was forced back on the streets by him with her jaw wired shut. When an attempt to kill herself failed, she phoned her parents and fled New York. In ten weeks she had provided her pimp with some...
...another front, France last week agreed to Bonn's request for the extradition of Radical Lawyer Klaus Croissant, 47. The West Germans had previously charged him with aiding the illegal activities of his terrorist clients, including Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin. Croissant fled to France last July, seeking political asylum; there his cause was championed by French leftists. But after lengthy hearings, a Paris appeals court ruled there was enough evidence against Croissant to warrant extradition...
...Seine was a while in the making. After Kennedy was assassinated, Salinger lost election to a Senate seat from California; bounced around a few uncongenial executive suites in the U.S., England and France; and helped manage George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. After that debacle, he fled to France, jobless. Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber immediately hired him for L'Express in 1973, shortly before the Watergate story broke. Salinger's ability to make that long and intricate crisis comprehensible to a nation of Cartesians won him a wide following. Says Salinger: "It was the start...