Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...armored car to use for their getaway. They offered to release nine of the hostages; they would take three women and the Rev. Joseph O'Brien, the prison chaplain, with them in their escape vehicle, and let them go later. Carrasco said that their intention was to flee to Cuba and take their problem to Fidel. "If Castro decides to shoot me, he'll be doing me a favor," said Carrasco. Dominguez declared that he too was prepared to die. Cuevas, who does not speak English, asked a Spanish-speaking newswoman to kiss his wife...
...that there will be an orderly transfer of power have helped, and so has the moderate tone of most black political pronouncements within Angola. "Money is basically cowardly," observes a Portuguese banker in Luanda, the Angolan capital. "At present it is staying here, but unless confidence continues, it will flee." In the central plateau city of Nova Lisboa, an insurance executive told Griggs: "I am Angolan, born here. My skin is white, but I am not Portuguese in my heart. There are good people in this country, many of them mulatto or black. If they get control here after independence...
...sleepy and frightened, refused to comply with the demand. But a forester named Joseph Cohen, 48, opened his door?and was immediately cut down by automatic-weapons fire. His son Eliahu, 4, was also killed, and his daughter Miriam, 5, wounded. His wife Fortuna, seven months pregnant, tried to flee the intruders, but was machine-gunned. The only one in the family not killed or wounded was 16-month-old Yitzhak Cohen. He never attracted attention by crying; he is a deaf-mute...
...similar, and the music also the focal point, the 44 minutes of A Well Spent Life, which precede The Harder They Come for this final week at the Orson Welles, are completely transporting in a different way. Instead of journeying to some never-never land of commercial spirituality, we flee to a real place at a real time. Les Blank's documentary visits the ancient home of bluesman Mance Lipscomb in the East Texas cotton country, weaving the music and the sharecropping way of life into a whole strain of U.S. history. Admittedly, dignity sits easy on the shoulders...
...Nazis and the Jews--the Zionist leaders failed to warn the victims and attempted to suppress Vrba's report. In return for this service, Adolf Eichmann, the administrator of the deportation process, allowed about 1600 people, largely wealthy Jews, relatives of the Zionist leaders or prominent Zionists, to flee to Switzerland. The result of this agreement was the death of nearly half a million Hungarian and Slovakian Jews. The deportations stopped only after Vrba succeeded, on his own, in having the report read by important Allied officials and published in Swiss newspapers...