Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Investigators probing the B.C.C.I. banking scandal got an unexpected break last week when FBI agents snared Sani Ahmad, the former head of the bank's Washington office. Ahmad, who fled to Pakistan after authorities sought him for questioning in 1990, had sneaked back into the U.S. to sell his house and is now being held without bail as a material witness. He is currently being interrogated by the Justice Department and New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau's B.C.C.I. team...
Hundreds of deed holders who fled the war's devastation are sure to return in coming months to reclaim their property. They will find, in most cases, that squatters who braved the fighting to cultivate the soil now consider themselves not claim jumpers but valiant pioneers. The Salvadoran government has a small reserve of land earmarked for redistribution, which may help a few. But not all the disputes can be solved that simply, and some are certain to lead to violence...
...dictatorial rule. By early Monday morning last week, after enduring heavy shelling, Gamsakhurdia finally decided it was time to retreat. Accompanied by his family and loyal supporters, he slipped out of the underground bunker in the parliament building where he had been living in a state of siege and fled to the neighboring republic of Armenia...
Such warnings have only limited effect. Under dark skies that threatened cloudbursts, evacuees at a Red Cross shelter in Angleton talked eagerly of returning to rebuild near the Brazos. "I prayed the water would never get too high," said Mike Horn, 32, an electrician who fled with creek waters lapping at his lawn. "But I don't care. I'm going home...
Looking back, it doesn't seem that much of a mystery why the poor guy fled Dallas so abruptly. His life took a wrong turn down there and never recovered. So did ours. We're all still fleeing Dallas, but it's too late to escape...