Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Seidman said she ran out of the room after realizing that the man "obviously couldn't have a gun in a pocket like his." He then fled behind her, she said...
...troubles, predictions of UNlTA's imminent collapse are exaggerated," reported Hillenbrand. "But the outlook is not bright. An estimated 100,000 members of the Ovimbundu tribe, who make up most of UNITA's support, have already fled into the bush to avoid the fighting. At his front-line rallies, Savimbi urged others to follow. After eight years in the bush as a guerrilla fighter against the Portuguese, he professed not to see any problem with this. 'Mao taught us that a peasant revolution can be successful, but the people have to be willing to suffer,' said...
...speaker is Financier Robert Lee Vesco, who last week gave a rare telephone interview to TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich. His sentiments are understandable: if the U.S. can get him extradited from Costa Rica, to which he fled in 1972, he will face trial on four indictments. The latest, returned in mid-January, charges Vesco and six associates with selling stocks held by mutual funds that were managed by I.O.S. Ltd.-the investment complex once controlled by Bernard Cornfeld-and then investing more than $100 million of the proceeds "for their own use and benefit" in corporations they controlled. Some...
Except for the militiamen, who were gleeful and voluble in victory, the town was almost empty. Its defenders had retreated southward to regroup. Almost all civilians had fled to nearby Saadiyat, Chamoun's seaside estate, which was also surrounded by leftist troops. Later, a small fleet of yachts and coastal steamers picked up the thousands of refugees and carried them to Juniyah, a large Christian stronghold north of the capital...
...former Governor's Palace in Silva Porto. Slogans extolling the virtues of UNITA and its leader are scrawled on walls throughout this small, colonial town in the Angolan highlands. Most of the Portuguese who once lived in the neat concrete houses with red tile roofs have long since fled the country. Squatters who carefully maintain the lawns and flower beds now live in many of these homes. The Portuguese left Silva Porto taking all the city maps, plans for the city water system and, of course, 400 years of experience. Nonetheless, the place seems to run amazingly well. Street...