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Imprisoned for the next seven years, four of them in solitary confinement, Mindszenty was released by freedom fighters in the 1956 uprising, but the arrival of Soviet troops force him to flee to the American legation in Budapest. Citing what he regarded as his duty as prince primate and as a patriot to remain in his homeland, Mindszenty stayed there for 15 years, writing, studying, and celebrating mass daily. He resisted the Vatican's pleas that the he leave until in 1971 a detente-minded President Nixon joined Pope Paul VI in asking him to leave. An embittered Mindszenty surrendered...
...Saigon lawyer and politician resisted all pleas from family members and friends to flee. He was sure that he and others like him would survive. He explained: "I have been vanquished and will no doubt be subjected to the victor. I have no illusions. But I frankly believe that any Communist rule will be a different one if many of us stay. They will have to consider our case or kill us all, which would produce a different reaction among the people than they might like...
...week-except for the presence of armed Communist soldiers in pajama-like uniforms-by week's end refugees were reporting that the Khmer Rouge had ordered the inhabitants of several towns to evacuate or risk being killed. Dozens of civilians were said to have been killed trying to flee, and other reports told of scattered executions...
...many Americans open their kind hearts to donate food, clothing and money to those refugee children who are being brought to the U.S.? But what about the starving black child in the ghetto, the poor Indian on the reservation, or the ragged-clothed youngster in Appalachia? Where can they flee to? How many special funds are set up for them...
...larger mysteries surrounding the collapse of most of South Viet Nam is the fate of an estimated 9 million people who did not-or could not-flee from the 19 provinces overrun by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. Hanoi has officially refused to permit the handful of foreign correspondents stationed in the North Vietnamese capital to visit the captured areas. Thus most of the scattered reports about conditions in South Viet Nam's northern provinces have been issued by the "Liberation Press Agency" of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. These euphoric communiqués stress the "delirious welcomes from...