Word: flee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority of these detainees were Haitians picked up along the Florida coast. Rather like the boat people of Viet Nam, the Haitians risked their lives to flee starvation and poverty in "Baby Doc" Duvalier's dictatorial regime, making the 700-mile journey in rickety, overcrowded vessels. Many drowned when their boats broke up at sea, and their bodies sometimes washed up on the plush resort beaches of South Florida. Haitians who made it alive to the U.S., but were unlucky enough to be caught as they landed, were immediately locked up. The only way out was to return...
Habib's task was to reconcile Israel's blunt demand that the Palestinians lay down their arms and flee the country with the P.L.O.'s plea for an "honorable surrender." On Monday the P.L.O. presented Habib with a set of requests. The most important was the retention of a "symbolic" military presence in Lebanon in the form of two armed brigades that would be commanded by the Lebanese army. The P.L.O. has similar arrangements in Jordan and Syria. In addition, the organization asked that it be allowed to maintain its own armed police force in the Palestinian...
...Israelis stepped up the shelling, thousands of civilians tried to flee the fighting. The U.S. and French embassies closed down in West Beirut and urged their citizens to evacuate the country. Lebanese officials estimated that 200 civilians were killed and 500 wounded on the day of the ceasefire, raising the week's casualties to some 2,000 dead and injured in the city...
...join the U.S. Army and the larger struggle. In 1949, back in the U.S., he receives a letter from Yang Yulin, a wartime comrade who is now a general in the Chinese Nationalist army. Yang has got hold of an anthropological treasure, the bones of Peking Man. He will flee the advancing Communist troops and turn over the relics to Greenwood. They must meet at Pawlu...
...Time to flee in a canoe...