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...individual and not for his country, he felt that the problem of Arab refugees in his country had to be solved in the larger context of finding a solution to the hostile relations between the Arab nations and Israel. There are also many Israeli refugees who had to flee from Arab territories without compensation, he continued, but "we feel that this problem is only part of the larger question of Arab-Israeli relations...
...trapped middle-ager wants to flee, like Gauguin to the South Seas, but erstwhile bankers of 45 who desert their Parisian families and become great painters are one of a kind. To blunt the pain of reality, he slips a whisky bottle into his desk and nips at it. (Alcoholism climbs a steep 50% in the 40-60 group over ages 30-39.) His medicine cabinet begins to look like a pharmaceutical display, and he retreats into hypochondria. Indeed, the sense of being straitjacketed by fate may contribute sizably to the cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary attacks that increasingly fell middle-agers...
...Sylvia's inferno deepened, Jenny testified, she made one desperate, futile attempt to flee. She had got as far as the porch when Mrs. Baniszewski dragged her back in and beat her across the face with a curtain rod. Marie Baniszewski, 11, told of Sylvia's last day of life: "She was still alive and breathing because I went over to say hi. She tried to say hi back, but she didn't have the energy to. She waved her hand and moaned." A few days earlier, Sylvia had told Jenny: "I know...
...John Norton, 48, who relieved Harry W. O. Kinnard early this month. Norton, a veteran of North Africa, Sicily and Normandy in World War II, swiftly upped the ante by sending in three battalions, then kept tight contact with the enemy despite drenching thunderstorms and frantic Red attempts to flee. By the time the Viet Cong broke contact, 122 of them were dead in the elephant grass, another four were prisoners, and 17 weapons had been seized...
...collapsed and sank, Galanopoulos suggests, the sea rushed in to fill the void, lowering the water on all eastern Mediterranean shores. As a result, a narrow bridge of land separating the Sea of Reeds from the Mediterranean temporarily widened -just as the Jews making the Exodus were about to flee across it. Shortly afterward, the waters that had surged toward Thera raced back in a huge wave that caught the pursuing Egyptian troops on the land bridge and swept them to their deaths...