Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...north and east along the banks of the Danube River, the stench of decomposing livestock, pets and people wafted through the rubble-strewn streets of Vukovar. Through 12 weeks of fighting, 58,000 townspeople had fled. The 12,000 who remained behind cowered in the town's cellars and sewers, rolling cigarettes from tea leaves and burning strips of doused cloth for light. "This is hell," Vesna Vukovic, a Croatian television reporter, pleaded over the airwaves. "We just cannot stand it anymore...
Being Ronald Reagan's Vice President left Bush no choice but to cater to the California operatives who turned the White House into an imperial palace and presidential events into Hollywood extravaganzas. But he escaped whenever he could. While Reagan fled Washington for the mountains north of Santa Barbara, Bush preferred the rocky coast of Maine -- about as far from Malibu as he could get without leaving the continental...
...middle-aged man had fled Cambodia to save his family from the genocidal Khmer Rouge. Now, as he stalked furiously back and forth across the grimy patio behind a cramped bungalow in the Little Phnom Penh section of Long Beach, he saw a very different threat materializing -- within his own family. His 14-year-old son, gang-named Flipper, and another homeboy, Slicc, 18, were bragging to a stranger about a shoot...
...California's population grows ever more diverse, it will also become less black. As immigrants flood into formerly black neighborhoods, many black families are deciding that it is time to leave. During the past decade, the black populations in both Los Angeles and San Francisco declined. Many African Americans fled to suburban cities in search of space and safety and jobs. But a great many African Americans are leaving the state, some to return to the Deep South that their parents and grandparents fled years...
...past 16 years 63,000 boat people have fled Vietnam to seek asylum in Hong Kong. Unable to accommodate them in overcrowded detention centers, the colony wants to send back all who do not qualify as bona fide refugees under U.N. guidelines. Last week, after two years of negotiations, Britain and Vietnam signed a statement of understanding in which Hanoi agreed to the return of nonpolitical refugees...