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...already harsh conditions even worse. The government's conflict with rebels in those regions has driven out relief workers and blocked food shipments. World Vision, a California-based agency, was feeding 370,000 people in Tigre province last May when threats of violence forced the organization's workers to flee...
...Leandra, a township about 60 miles east of Johannesburg, vigilantes last January burned down the house of Chief Ampie Mayisa, a local antigovernment leader, and then hacked him to death with axes when he tried to flee. Two days later, one of Mayisa's attackers told a local reporter that they had killed him because he was "responsible for some of the youths' deaths in the township . . . for some of us missing our (school) examinations." At the beginning of this month, vigilantes in Winterveld bombed the houses of four activists who had organized a protest meeting in that tiny town...
...judges and the Washington-based Council for the Advancement and Support of Education. The winners included a physics major, a musical prodigy who finished first in last year's New York Philharmonic Concerto Competition and an Air Force Academy cadet from Viet Nam who in 1975 was forced to flee Saigon in a refugee boat...
According to eyewitnesses, a group of students from Butler and Wilson Colleges began hurling handfuls of food at each other, causing many diners to flee the hall. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE...
...THERE WAS another, more insidious element. The report concludes that police fired on Move members trying to flee the blazing building. They were caught between fire and gunfire. As one member of the committee said, "It's not human to run back into a raging inferno." For Move, it was not a question of surrender...