Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pledges: he pardoned the Viet Nam draft evaders. His order covered an estimated 10,000 men already convicted (only seven of whom are still in prison), an additional 2,500 still under indictment, and an undetermined number who never registered for the draft. More than 2,000 who had fled abroad will now be free to return home...
...cold December evening three years ago, a cartoonist for Le Canard Enchaîné, the satirical Paris weekly, happened to visit the new offices that the paper was about to occupy. He found a band of "plumbers" busily installing listening devices. On being discovered, the plumbers all fled, but the magazine filed a civil suit against the unidentified intruders, charging invasion of privacy...
What Carter promised was a blanket pardon "for those who violated Selective Service laws." This presumably would include all those civilians who fled the country to avoid the draft, simply failed to register or refused to submit to induction. As for those who deserted after induction or enlistment, Carter said each case "should be handled on an individual basis in accordance with our nation's system of military justice." That seemed to imply that military officials, hardly lenient in such matters, would have to process all of these desertion cases and try to decide what was in each person...
...result, more than 5,000 Angolans have fled to refugee camps in Namibia, joining 5,000 others who left their homeland during an earlier government offensive against UNITA. At the same time, there are some 16,000 Angolan refugees in neighboring Zambia, which banned UNITA from operating in that country. The Zambians, who had been one of UNITA'S principal backers, evidently decided that their support could not continue now that Angola had been given a seat...
...when that marriage broke up ("It turned out we had only one interest in common," she explains), Rosemary was left with two sons and two daughters to support on her $4,200 salary as a typist. In 1969, in the face of a socialist takeover of Ceylon, her parents fled the island with only ? 100, giving Rosemary two more dependents. At 37, the rich girl from Ceylon was on her uppers in Fairfield...