Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saiqa was established by Syria in 1967 and is still largely funded by Damascus. Led by Zuheir Mohsen, 45, Saiqa (Thunderbolt) consists of possibly 2,000 men, including about 1,000 full-time guerrillas. Most of them are Palestinian refugees who fled to Syria. More military than political, Al Saiqa is little more than an unofficial auxiliary of the Syrian army...
...fire only smoldered for lack of oxygen, but it did trigger fire alarms after the burglars had fled, revealing that they had got away with a record $4 million in virtually untraceable bills. In view of the immense fortune the thieves left behind, that sum, weighing perhaps 700 lbs., was presumably all they could conveniently carry...
...Sunday, two men crashed the party at gunpoint. The pair made the partygoers strip and stole their money, watches and jewelry. As a vicious finale, they raped one of the women. The two men then locked the victims into the room's closets and bathroom, and fled...
...means. An eccentric? Certainly. Like Peter de Labigarre, who fled the French Revolution to the U.S., built the Chateau de Tivoli where the village now stands and planned a Utopian commune there, Broadmoore is a refugee-not from revolution but from what he regards as the all-pervasive standardization of American life. "I like to imagine that I am living in the 19th century," he told TIME'S Eileen Shields. "I call it an experiment. I am capable of discoursing in modern terms. But as soon as I am alone, I revert to my imagination, which is the past...
...nothing else to do." His peaceful existence was, however, ended in 1970 by the election of Allende and the Popular Unity government. Astute enough, after 25 years avoiding trial, to realize that even if Allende did not deport him, his ownership of the factory would be threatened, Rauff fled Chile. He apparently lived in exile in another South American country...