Word: fled
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Liberia's armed guerrilla leaders have driven the nominally democratic West African country into the ground with six years of civil war, and so mercilessly that half the population fled. Today, hundreds of thousands of cheering but exhausted civilians lined the streets of Monrovia as several of the chief warlords re-entered the capital for the first time in years. In an elaborate ceremony attended by foreign diplomats, the warlords were seated on a new six-member Council of State. Andrew Purvis, Nairobi bureau chief, reports that they have reason to believe that the ceasefire -- the war's thirteenth -- will...
...away most of his supporters who have shown any brains or ability. And now Saddam's family itself is torn by betrayals and blood feuds. Many of its members have also been sacked, exiled or executed. The latest example is Hussein Kamel al-Majid, the former Armaments Minister, who fled to Jordan in early August with his brother Saddam Kamel, the head of Saddam Hussein's personal guard, and their wives, two of Saddam's daughters...
...Viet Dinh, one of Fried's former students, recalled how Fried had assisted with attempts to free his sister from a refugee camp in Hong Kong after she had fled Vietnam...
Witnesses said the teens fled the shop on foot after the shots were fired...
...Croatian army moved through Bosnian territory toward the Croatian Serb capital of Knin firing artillery shells that landed within two miles of the city, as thousands of Serbs fled. The advance came afterSerbs reneged on an agreementto stop attacks on Bosnia's Bihac enclave. U.N. officials urged restraint, fearing that fighting in Croatia could lead to a widening of the war and possibly cause the well-armed forces from Yugoslavia to enter the war. Croatian Foreign Minister Mate Granic insisted his country had not yet decided to try to retake territory gained by rebel Croatian Serb forces...