Word: fled
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Schindler, 51, who calls himself a moderate but "not a political Zionist," fled Nazi Germany when he was twelve. He earned a Purple Heart as a ski trooper in World War II and graduated from New York's City College before becoming a Reform rabbi. Since 1973 he has been president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an umbrella group for 750 Reform temples that count a membership...
Despite the overwhelming odds against success, East Germans still keep trying to beat the fence. Last year some 573 fled over the Berlin Wall and across the frontier; in the first four months of this year, an additional 204 made it to the West. But many fail. American patrols have had to watch helplessly as escaping East Germans have been gunned down by the border guards. Under strict orders not to violate East German territory, the G.I.s cannot do anything to help unless the escapees manage to reach West German soil...
...publicized mistress. When Carol's father ordered her out of the country, Carol left too, renouncing the throne. He came back as King in 1930, and Magda soon joined him, reviled as the "Jewish Pompadour" in the increasingly anti-Semitic climate. Under pressure from the Nazis, the couple fled Rumania in 1940, moving first to Mexico and then to Brazil, where Carol married her in 1947. After Carol's death m 1953, Lupescu lived quietly in a Portuguese villa...
...majority of these refugees want to find a haven in the U.S. Their chances, however, are slight. The current U.S. program for fugitives from Indochina is confined to people who have fled by boat, and allows for the entry of 300 people a month for the next three months. After that the number will be reduced to 100. But to qualify for entry at all, refugees must have close relatives who are U.S. citizens or be in a "high risk" category of people who held ranking positions in the Saigon regime, or who collaborated closely with U.S. military or Government...
...that Amin had been ambushed by an assassination squad somewhere between Kampala and Entebbe. According to one Nairobi paper, the attempted coup was engineered by a Ugandan army major, but Amin had been tipped off and escaped with minor wounds. The alleged coup leaders were then said to have fled to Kenya...