Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islands, where geologists believe oil may lie under the sea bottom. Still other U.S. officials feared that the Cambodians had taken the ship in order to use it as a chip in future bargaining with the U.S. over weapons that soldiers of the former Cambodian government had fled with to Thailand...
Buying Paper. While the city was spending as if there were no limits, revenues were not keeping up. The percentage of blacks and Hispanic Americans climbed to almost one-third of the city's population, and more and more middle-income whites fled to the suburbs. Taxes per capita in New York City are higher than anywhere else in the nation; besides paying 8% sales tax and heavy state income taxes, a family of four with a $15,000 income is hit for $179 a year in city income taxes. Additional increases would be sure to drive out still...
...units actually stripped then" rightist officers of power. Elsewhere, they deserted camps en masse rather than continue under rightists. In other places rightist officers simply disappeared, fleeing with their families in wooden ferries across the Mekong River into Thailand. Rightist politicians and many Chinese and Vietnamese businessmen also fled...
Lisbon decided to free its African territories, hundreds have died in racial clashes. As many as 50,000 whites (out of 220,000) have fled the Indian Ocean country, and planes and boats are fully booked until independence day. Not all of them have left for racial reasons; some fear that the all-black administration that will replace the joint Portuguese-Mozambique transition government will become a left-wing dictatorship...
Fallen City. After the surrender of the city, Red Cross authorities had tried to convert the Hotel Le Phnom into a protected international zone. But at 5 p.m. on the day of the takeover, Khmer Rouge troops ordered the hotel evacuated within 30 minutes. Hundreds of foreigners fled to the French embassy compound; most of them remained there for 13 days, while fires and shooting broke out sporadically in the fallen city...