Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place." Far from dwelling on the progress achieved over the years in relations between the two countries, Kohl launched into a blistering attack on Honecker's regime, denouncing it for everything from holding political prisoners to enforcing a shoot-to-kill order against East German citizens who try to flee to the West. Such policies, he said at a Bonn banquet, collide with the goal of the "unity and self-determination of a free Germany." Visibly irritated, Honecker included an extemporaneous riposte in his prepared remarks. Communism and capitalism, he said, "are like fire and water...
...California's Stanislaus National Forest, the area of destruction from blazes doubled, to 90,000 acres, in less than a day. Four thousand residents of nearby Tuolumne County were forced to flee from the 50-foot walls of flame. In all, some 9,000 people were ordered to evacuate their homes in a dozen mountain settlements. More than 20,000 fire fighters were enlisted to help. With no rain in the forecast, they were braced for a long battle...
...become a cowboy, a prisoner must be near the end of his term: the horse corrals are outside the prison security system, and an inmate inclined to flee need only cross an alfalfa field and a low barbed-wire fence. No one has done so yet. Corral Boss Tony Bainbridge observes, "The meanest ones seem to make the best hands. You come out here and think you're a tough guy -- we'll find out." He says, "A 900-lb. horse can move you around more than you expect...
When the teenagers saw the rifle, three of them ran. But Kellie Mosier, 17, a lissome, bright-eyed high school junior who worked in an ice-cream store, never got a chance. As she turned to flee, Hagan began squeezing the trigger, methodically emptying all 15 rounds from the fully loaded clip. Just for kicks. Mosier was hit six times in the back...
...Congressman John Joseph Moakley of Massachusetts, sponsor of legislation to prevent the deportation of Salvadorans and Nicaraguans, accused the Administration of "playing politics with people's lives" in helping Nicaraguans (reflecting U.S. aversion to the Sandinista regime) while ignoring ; Salvadorans (to avoid suggesting that they might have reason to flee from a government the U.S. supports). Said Moakley: "If El Salvador were under Communist leadership, they'd have the welcome wagons out waiting...