Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John Bremridge, Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, blamed the bank's collapse on "criminal dealings" by its senior management. Bremridge speculated that Chang has as much as $13 million stashed away somewhere and was trying to flee to a country that has no extradition treaty with Hong Kong...
...stormed off the soccer field without so much as a handshake for their opponents. Then the real action began. From the stands, angry fans unleashed a volley of soda bottles. Soon hordes of spectators poured onto the field in pursuit of the victors, forcing the Hong Kong team to flee to a room reserved for dignitaries. Others besieged the home team's locker room, smashing windows and calling for the coach's resignation...
Like Bhindranwale, the radicals are determined to prevent a peaceful settlement. They aim instead to provoke a showdown between Hindus and Sikhs of such intensity that the 14 million Hindus who reside in Punjab would be forced to flee. That, the radicals believe, would inevitably result in the creation of an independent state. As one analyst of Sikh affairs explained last week, "The ghost of Bhindranwale cannot be exorcised." To speed what they hope will be a massive Hindu migration out of Punjab, Sikh terrorists have marked local Hindu leaders for assassination. In recent weeks, three have been gunned down...
...pulps. Two unshaven, rifle-toting renegade mountain men, a father and son, abduct a young woman to take with them into the trackless Spanish Peaks wilderness where they live. Overtaken by searchers, they kill one pursuer, accidentally wound their captive of 18 hours (she has now recovered completely), then flee alone to the high country, only to be tracked down five months later by an unrelenting sheriff...
...Minh City that is prettily landscaped with lotus ponds and lyrical gardens. The frightened-looking men, sallow-faced and hollow-eyed, have been forbidden to answer serious questions. Off to one side, however, one of them drops his guard for a moment. His crime, he says, was trying to flee the country; his punishment, he adds, is just...