Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Forest Park. For six years, agents listened to his most intimate business conversations, learning valuable information about the Mafia's organization and operations. In 1965 Giancana was jailed for refusing to answer the questions of a grand jury about Chicago's rackets. Released a year later, he fled to Mexico to escape further questioning and holed up in a walled estate near Cuernavaca...
...most urgent and controversial questions pivot on the Greek Cypriot refugees who fled the Atilla operation last summer. There are at least 180,000 of them--almost a third of the total Cypriot population--and although they have all been squeezed into tents, the strain of caring for so many dispossessed is severe...
...seems ironic that 54% of the American public opposes helping the South Vietnamese refugees. When white men fled from England during the 1600s, they were "refugees" who fled in fright from the powerful grip of the King and Queen...
Robin West was a young man who fled the Nixon White House in horror when he saw what was happening. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress back in Pennsylvania and then was asked back to the White House under Gerald Ford. "Why in hell would you want to work for Jerry Ford?" he was asked at dinner last fall. Now he does not need to explain. "It must be fun," a friend told him the other night...
Radcliffe's intercollegiate teams have fled the gym for the relative luxury of the IAB, but in a funny way. It makes an appropriate home for the Harvard Radcliffe modern dance program. There is almost a tradition that artists have thrived in--or in opposition to--locales out of the mainstream, and even if the building is so underwired that any dance performances in it have to be lit with electricity from Agassiz Theatre, its high ceilings and broad windows give it an ambience and a flexibility and--you might say-an "underwhelmingness" that no modern white-paint sheetrock...