Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case that was expected to take months, if not years, to crack, there were still countless questions. "At this point, we don't know if we're looking for three or four more people, or 15 or 20," says an investigator. Washington authorities feared that some terrorists might have fled to the Middle East or were trying to do so; the Justice Department circulated to airlines the names of three Muslims and told the companies not to let them board flights out of the country...
...course, this isn't the first time Canada has been on the liberal forefront of social or security matters. Indeed, when a gay man fled Argentinean authorities last year, Canada granted him asylum based on his claim of persecution for his sexual preference...
...lucky ones who won the right to seek asylum in the U.S. Arrested after the 1991 coup, he was bound with a cord around his neck and marched off to jail. He lost two teeth when an officer hit him with the butt of a gun. Released provisionally, he fled into the wilderness like the slaves of old. When he returned home, the police tried to gun him down. Days before he got his exit visa to the U.S., soldiers stopped him and kicked him. "If Aristide comes back," he says, "I will return. People aren't leaving Haiti because...
...James Cox III, an unemployed dishwasher in Jacksonville, Florida, was determined to find his ex-girlfriend, despite a court order to stay away from her. Two weeks ago, he forced her mother at gunpoint to tell him the location of the battered women's shelter where her daughter had fled, and stormed the building, firing a shotgun. Police shot him dead. "This case illustrates the extent to which men go to pursue their victims," said executive director Rita DeYoung. "It creates a catch-22 for all battered women. Some will choose to return to their abusers, thinking they can control...
Life in the apartment changes when Treat decides to kidnap a well-dressed drunk, but Harold (Ted Kazanoff), also an orphan, turns out to be a professional gangster with a taste for whisky who has fled trouble in Chicago...