Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a very personal reason for congratulating those heroes of freedom, the dissidents who have the courage to fight for freedom inside the monster and to suffer cruel persecution. When Communism took over my country, I chickened out and fled to a safe haven in this land of the free...
...house searches and sweeping arrests. Among the prominent Ugandans who "disappeared" last week were Byron Kawadwa, who had led the Uganda troupe to the recent Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Nigeria, and Tucker Lwanage, chief librarian at Makerere University. A student who fled after his uncle was seized by police said he had heard that between 1,000 and 1,500 Lango and Acholi soldiers had been killed in recent skirmishes at army barracks in the towns of Mubende and Mbarara. Except for the President's own tiny Kakwa tribe, said another...
...Bucharest said that "the center of the town looked as though an air raid had hit it," TIME's Richard Gross cabled that relatively few buildings were actually flattened. "Most of those that were damaged had their roofs or top floors shaken loose. The rubble bombarded residents, who fled to the streets in panic. Motorists, not knowing where to flee, drove around in circles for hours in panic, creating horrendous traffic jams in a city where most people are too poor to afford cars. Yet U.S. embassy officials expressed surprise that the damage had been so light, considering...
Spokesmen for Somoza insist that the bishops' charges are grossly exaggerated. Many campesinos, they explain, have not been killed, but simply fled their homes to avoid the fighting. U.S. Ambassador James Theberge, however, takes the reports seriously: "We have reason to believe that some of the allegations of human rights violations are accurate, and our concern has been made clear to the Nicaraguan government on various occasions in the past year...
...TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week: "You are walking, and any creature making a step on the dry grass behind you might be an Amin man. Whenever you hear a car speeding down the street, you think it might suddenly come to a stop-for you. I finally fled, not because I was in trouble or because of anything I did, but out of sheer fear. People disappear. When they disappear, it means they are dead...