Word: fled
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Thus ended a Wanderjahr in which Wolf fled through central Europe to the Soviet Union shortly before unification, then trekked backward because his continued sanctuary in Moscow seemed risky in the aftermath of the failed August coup. In Austria, his last stop before turning himself in, Wolf appeared to be teasing Bonn with impunity for three weeks. He applied for political asylum, counting on the international legal practice prohibiting extradition of individuals to countries where they are wanted for political crimes...
...secret that important people, particularly academic important people, like to hang out together. And, of course, they also like to go home sometimes for a little vacation. So when former Harvard President Derek C. Bok was looking for a little R&R after his two-decade tenure here, he fled to his ancestral undergraduate home on the West Coast--Stanford. Specifically, the school's Center for Advanced Study...
...hear her story, they may not have been far wrong. She dropped out of school in sixth grade after throwing a teacher down the stairs, and started ; selling crack at 13. In 1989 she was placed in a home for troubled girls but fled after the first day. So her parents sent her to live with her grandfather in Puerto Rico. But when she returned to New York, she began staying out all night with a dangerous crowd. One time she disappeared for three weeks and was returned, bruised and beaten, by two gun-toting drug dealers demanding money that...
...Wolf fled to the Soviet Union shortly before German unification last October. In the aftermath of the failed Soviet coup, he apparently feared that the reformers now in power in Moscow would hand him over to Germany. Though Austria is expected to deny Wolf's appeal, it cannot deport him to his homeland; international law protects him against extradition for political crimes. So where will he go? The Soviet Union, which has already antagonized Germany by harboring former East German leader Erich Honecker, is unlikely to want him back. Wolf says his own choice would be Germany. But coming...
...East German leader Erich Honecker remains in the Soviet Union, and though Bonn has demanded his extradition, he is not expected to appear in court anytime soon. One man who may show up to face possible prosecution, however, is Markus Wolf, the legendary spymaster of former East Germany, who fled before the Germanys united last October and who is now rumored to be planning a return from Moscow...