Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every Vietnamese who fled from the South last week there were hundreds who were just as fearful of being killed but could find no way to get out. According to one U.S. intelligence report, the odds against a Vietnamese escaping were 50 to 1 unless he had an "American connection "-a relative who was a U.S. citizen or an American friend who was willing to guarantee a job in the U.S. or financial support. Rather than fight those odds, many Vietnamese were resigned to staying. Some were looking for a safe place for their families in case Saigon was shelled...
...contemplating suicide. Some of her classmates said that their parents had asked them to bring home large quantities of sleeping pills. Others considered poison or an overdose of tranquilizers. Even many Catholics spoke of suicide. One, the wife of a civil servant and mother of nine children, fled Hanoi when the Communists took control of the North in 1954. She explained: "We cannot live with them. Since there is no longer any place left to run, the only option is death." Otherwise, she believed, the Communists would execute the children before her eyes...
Both Long Boret and Sirik Matak were on the old Khmer Rouge list of "seven traitors" slated for death. Four others, including President Lon Nol (see story below), escaped before the capital fell. Another, former Premier In Tarn, waited until it was almost too late, and finally fled across the border into Thailand, with Communist troops firing at him. Also in Thailand are approximately 1,000 other Cambodian refugees; most are expected to stay on or to settle permanently in the U.S. and France...
Among the Cambodians who fled into Thailand, many were soldiers who brought along their U.S.-made equipment. Khmer Rouge demands that the equipment be returned-including armored personnel carriers and aircraft-led to tension between Thai and Communist border guards. The Thai government sent 1,000 troops to reinforce 4,000 border police in a determined effort to stem the continued inflow of Cambodian refugees...
...Penh, presumably to get refugees into the countryside to plant rice in time for the rainy season and perhaps to facilitate the search for hidden government and army officials, rebel sound trucks rumbled through Phnom-Penh toward week's end, warning of immediate attack. Panicked, thousands of refugees fled the city...