Word: fled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this counterrevolutionary insurrection in the capital," to turn themselves in for "lenient treatment." The decrees set up a spy-and-report network, complete with 18 telephone hot lines, so that citizens could help round up dissidents. Fearful of arrest, student leaders who had survived the carnage went underground or fled the city. The astrophysicist Fang Lizhi, a leading dissident who was prevented by the government from dining with George Bush during the President's visit last February, sought refuge in the U.S. embassy; the presence of the "traitor" there provoked Chinese complaints of American meddling...
...government's assurances that it will continue to keep its doors open to the outside world, foreign trade -- $82.6 billion in 1988 -- can be expected to slide steeply in the next few months. Though China may want to trade, will anyone want to trade with China? As foreigners have fled the country, joint ventures with Western and Japanese firms are frozen. Even before the protests erupted, inflation, corruption and unemployment had put a brake on progress; hesitation by outsiders to invest in China will only exacerbate these problems. Said a senior British diplomat: "First, there is the revulsion factor...
Leveling their AK-47 assault rifles, the soldiers began firing away at the mobs. The gas tanks of commandeered buses exploded. Huge streams of people fled in terror past blazing trees along Changan Avenue -- the Avenue of Eternal Peace. As helmeted soldiers mounted automatic machine guns on tripods facing the square, policemen with truncheons chased people from the sidewalks and the ornate marble bridges leading to the Forbidden City...
...sunrise the sky was enveloped in smoke. Some residents bravely regrouped and taunted the troops occupying the square, crying, "Beasts! Beasts!" Again shots were fired, and some 5,000 fled for their lives, scrambling into the narrow hutungs, or alleys, that snake through the city. On Sunday the P.L.A. newspaper Liberation Daily proclaimed a great victory over a "counterrevolutionary insurrection." Still, reports of shooting and fighting in Beijing continued to pour in the following day. Additionally, citizens' blockades have begun to go up in Shanghai, China's largest city...
...crowd held back while a group of 40 hungry women and children rushed into the Boerio and grabbed as much milk, flour and sugar as they could carry. As they fled, the ransacking began in earnest. Young, strapping men armed with crowbars knocked spaghetti, oranges and hunks of meat onto the floor as they rushed to scoop up groceries. Others carted off boxes of laundry detergent, frozen foods and toilet paper into their Peugots, Volvos and even waiting taxis. Within 20 minutes they had destroyed the bakery at the rear of the store, smashed out the windows and broken open...