Word: fled
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From India, the Tibetan government-in-exile condemned the Chinese crackdown and said it feared the Communists would use the riots "as an excuse to resort to more repressive methods." But the bloodshed may increase international pressure on Beijing to start negotiations with the Tibetans. The Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959, has accused the Chinese of stalling on proposed talks to make fiercely independent Tibet a self-governing entity "in association" with the People's Republic...
...Greece." But investigators have yet to hear from the central figure in the case, George Koskotas, 34, a onetime New York house painter who vaulted to power as the multimillionaire owner of the Bank of Crete. Now jailed in Massachusetts on a variety of charges leveled just before he fled Greece last November, Koskotas is facing extradition to answer accusations of looting his own bank...
...Crete, he owned Grammi, a flourishing publishing empire that operated five magazines, three newspapers and a radio station. He bankrolled big hotels. A year ago, he bought Greece's wildly popular soccer team, Olympiakos. He created one of the world's most advanced printing plants. And until he fled Greece, Koskotas consorted freely with the country's ruling Socialist leaders. At 34, George Koskotas, the Greek wunderkind, had achieved a dazzling reputation in his own land...
...forefathers came from dictatorial, totalitarian rules. These people who fled Europe and came to the North American continent had a great suspicion of too much power," Evans says, adding that the founding fathers were aware of the corruptive nature of power. "The whole idea of the legislature was to slow down the political process...You just have to have a lot of persistence...
...interest in acting. After graduating in 1968, he moved to Pakistan, where his parents had relocated. His brief stay in a Muslim state was not happy. His production of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story was censored because the play contains the word pork. Within the year, Rushdie fled back to England...