Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before, he had divorced three of his four Moslem wives: Senior Wife Miriam, sister of a former Foreign Minister, who fell out with Amin and fled the country last year; Second Wife Kay, a Lugbara and a cousin of Lieut. Colonel Ondoga, and Third Wife Nora, related to a cousin of ex-President Obote. The remaining wife, Madina, Amin says, was given to him as a gift in 1971; she apparently has no political ties to any Amin enemy...
Within moments the assailant had also shot a policeman who was dashing to the rescue. At the sight of a second constable, Peter Edmonds, 24, the gunman fled into St. James's Park, which flanks the Buckingham Palace Mall. Edmonds, who was unarmed, brought him down with a flying rugby tackle. A young woman rushed up to the Austin and asked Anne, "Are you all right, love?" Though severely shaken, she replied, "Yes, I'm fine, thank you." A bullet through the rear window marked how close they had come to death. It was the first attack...
...CONFLICT WITH IRAQ. The first time [the Iraqis attacked], obviously we were taken by surprise. Tanks showed up and fired pointblank, but they did not really move on. Only the sacrifice of our boys saved the situation, and then we launched not a very heavy counterattack and they fled. [The Iraqis want] to keep their people busy; so they are always creating an imaginary enemy-how do you say?-a bogeyman? The second time they opened up with artillery, and they suffered very heavily when we counterattacked...
...origins of this bizarre practice are ancient. The Parsis, as their name implies, are descendants of Persians who fled the conquering armies of Islam in the 7th century. Like their Persian ancestors, they are Zoroastrians, followers of a myth-enshrouded religious prophet named Zoroaster who lived some six centuries before Christ. Zoroaster's exact teaching is obscure but, as passed down by the Parsis, it is basically a vision of life as conflict between a spirit of goodness and light-Ahura Mazda -and a spirit of evil and darkness-Ahriman. The Parsis worship Ahura Mazda in the form...
...need of a program to identify the players, it is cloistered, xenophobic Burma. Particularly in the uncharted "Golden Triangle," where a slice of northeastern Burma meets Thailand and Laos, the situation is a demographer's and political analyst's nightmare. Remnants of a Kuomintang army that fled China at the time of the Communist takeover vie with independent warlords for control of the region's rich opium crop, while armed independence movements representing a bewildering host of ethnic and tribal groups periodically challenge the Rangoon government of General...