Word: fled
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Worse by far was the terror and panic inside the ship, as passengers fled their cabins and jammed into corridors and stairways. "A woman had broken her legs and begged others to give her a life jacket," said Kent Harstedt, a Swedish passenger, "but it was the law of the jungle." Andrus Maidre, a 19- year-old Estonian passenger, said the old and the very young had little chance. "Some old people had already given up hope and were just sitting there crying," he said. "I stepped over children who were wailing and holding onto the railing." Very...
...America fled Somalia after 18 Army Rangers died because the cost of the operation became apparent. But there was a more visceral reaction propelling our retreat: a sense of betrayal. Here we are doing this for the Somalis, for no benefit to ourselves, and this is how they repay us! To hell with the ingrates...
...first time in three years -- courtesy of the Marines -- only one uniformed Haitian soldier remained at his post. The rest of the garrison -- from Lieut. Colonel Claudel Josaphat, the feared and brutal regional military commander, to telephone repairmen who owed their jobs to the de facto government -- had fled. Shortly after U.S. forces arrived, a delegation of local dignitaries approached Marine commander Colonel Thomas Jones. "I guess you are the new mayor of Cap Haitien," their spokesman announced. Asked what were the capabilities of the remaining local government in the nearby town of Gonaives, one American captain explained: "They could...
Apparently prompted by a sign in a City Hall art display reading "Show me yours," a man yesterday exposed himself to exhibit visitors and fled before police arrived on the scene...
Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and General Philippe Biamby, the two Haitian coup leaders left after police chief Michel Francois fled Monday night, wept at the funeral for 10 junta "attaches" killed Sept. 24 in a shootout with U.S. Marines. U.S. officials ignored the ceremony, while pro-democracy Haitians helped U.S. soldiers track down army-allied gunmen who had terrorized neighborhoods since the junta seized power in 1991. Francois, who engineered the coup but slipped away to a comfortable house in the neighboring Dominican Republic, left behind a letter that reproaches the other two capos for striking an agreement with former...