Word: fled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tens of thousands of East Germans have fled the country in recent months, turning their backs on the rigid authoritarian system, and thousands of citizens have staged massive demonstrations in recent weeks...
More than 52,000 East Germans have fled westward since late July, either over Hungary's open border with Austria or after seeking refuge in West Germany's embassies in Warsaw, Poland, and Prague, Czechoslovakia...
...natural for the honor. So when the Nobel Committee in Oslo finally named him the winner of the $445,000 cash award last week, the question was not "Why him?" but "Why now?" Surely the choice of the Dalai Lama, who has been living in India since he fled Chinese occupation forces in 1959, was meant as a slap at Beijing: a symbol of international condemnation of the Chinese government for its crackdown on the students' democracy movement in Tiananmen Square last June and imposition of martial law in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, following anti-Chinese riots last March...
...those measured words came too late for the East Germans who had already opted to make a run for a better life in the West. Last week alone some 8,200 fled, raising the total number of refugees over the past five months to 50,000. Some jumped at the opportunity without a moment's hesitation, others agonized over it. "We talked about it way into the night for days on end," said Christiane Weinbauer of Halle, who joined the exodus with her husband last week. "One minute we had decided to go, and the next we were staying...
...Boston Detective Unit discovered John Elzer, 27, breaking into a motor veichle at the Furnpike Parking lot in Allston on Monday night, said Carl A. Tempesta, management information systems coordinator for the Harvard Police. On discovery Elzer fled the scene in another car and then abandoned the car on Memorial drive...