Word: fled
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Kennedy snaps on his blue roof light and hits the gas. Within minutes, he reaches the Cessna 441. Its props are still turning, but the pilot has fled into the dense, swampy undergrowth. Dressed for the office in a suit and loafers, Kennedy pulls a Walther PPK from his ankle holster and gamely wades in, immediately losing a shoe to the muck. Reinforcements soon join him, and the search goes on for hours. Though the pilot manages to evade them, Kennedy and his colleagues seize nearly a ton of cocaine from the abandoned plane...
Undaunted, Rahman sent his American wife Ellen and their two children to the U.S. for safety. "My wife and children were suffering greatly. They were being terrorized by this situation," he testified. Rahman then fled London just days before he testified. As his wife sat behind him, the former chief financial officer declared last week that B.C.C.I. had been essentially broke since 1985. He went on to accuse the accounting firm Price Waterhouse of tolerating phony bookkeeping that made the bank look solvent -- a charge the auditor denies. Among the losses covered up were hundreds of millions of dollars...
...York State social-services department. Away from the office he was a wild and crazy guy. In June, police say, Hall took a day off, went to a bank in Queens and threatened to blow a teller's head off unless he handed over some cash. But as he fled the scene with $725, Hall dropped the Manila envelope he used to conceal a gun and a holdup note. The envelope was stamped with his employer's address, and although the address had been inked out, the FBI was able to track him down two weeks...
With the country in such deep disarray, the contours of one ghastly solution are already emerging on the battlefield: a redrawing of internal borders along ethnic lines, accompanied by population exchanges. In a sense, it is already happening. Some 40,000 ethnic Serbs have fled across Croatia's borders, mostly into the Serbian province of Vojvodina and the republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Croatian retreat from embattled zones where Serbian militias have triumphed over Croatian defense forces has dislodged tens of thousands of villagers. But a formal remapping of Yugoslavia, with its six republics and two autonomous provinces, could deepen...
Today's big squeeze is hardly subtle. Of the approximately 230,000 Palestinians who fled Kuwait following Iraq's invasion, none are being allowed to return. Except for those expressly needed in critical government posts (perhaps 2,000 in the ministries of Health and Electricity and Water), most of the 170,000 remaining Palestinians have been fired from their jobs. At the same time, the government is demanding back rent, and private Kuwaiti landlords are doing the same. Free medical care and public schooling, heretofore rights for expatriates, are history. Private schooling is still possible, but the 50% government subsidy...