Word: flees
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...helped write the Freedom Charter, the document that in 1955 became the ANC's political program. Slovo was accused of sabotage in 1963 in the same trial that resulted in lifetime prison sentences for Nelson Mandela and five other ANC leaders, but Slovo had managed to flee South Africa a month before the others were arrested. He has lived in exile ever since. In 1982, his wife Ruth First, also a prominent Communist, was killed by a parcel bomb allegedly planted by Pretoria's agents...
...through Europe. In a famous medical treatise French Surgeon Guy de Chauliac of Avignon recalled his impressions of the horror around him: "The father did not visit the son nor the son the father. Charity was dead and hope abandoned . . . For self-preservation there was nothing better than to flee the region before becoming infected...
Western diplomats in Moscow see two motives in Gorbachev's initiative. They believe that the Kremlin would like to limit defections by giving artists enough freedom to make it unnecessary for them to flee the country. Rules governing travel abroad for artists and intellectuals are being relaxed, provided their trips are financed by foreign sources. Gorbachev would like to gain the trust of the Soviet intelligentsia, something no Soviet regime has enjoyed since Lenin. "He's giving them a little more room to work," said one diplomat, "and in return he will expect their help in his foreign and economic...
Marines guarding the presidential palace fire on protesting farmers, and talks with Communist rebels collapse. -- In Beirut more Americans are taken hostage in a dramatic mass kidnaping following the arrest of a suspected terrorist in West Germany. -- Thousands flee north as Iranian shellfire turns the Iraqi port city of Basra into a pockmarked wasteland...
Addressing the situation in Central America, Konnyu said that without contra aid several refugees would flee to the United States from Nicaragua and El Salvador. "The American people simply do not want thousands of people on welfare on their backs as we had to do with the Vietnamese folks," he said...