Word: flees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Baltimore, members of the city council listened last week as Civil Defense Chief William Codd outlined a proposal to move more than a million residents to West Virginia, if given 72 hours' notice of a nuclear attack. People would theoretically flee in sequence according to their zip codes; the estimated 330,000 Baltimoreans without cars would board MTA buses, already notorious for being late even on the most placid of days. Inexplicably, the proposal envisions at least 33,000 leaving the city armed with crowbars. Complained Councilman Dominic DiPietro as he stormed out of the meeting: "What a bunch...
Still, thousands of Indochinese continue to flee to Thailand. About 12,200 Laotians are being held in a detention center at Nakorn Phanom. Another 4,800 Vietnamese are in indefinite limbo at Si-khiu Prison. The boat people are also seeking asylum in other Asian countries. About 15 a day arrive in Hong Kong, half of whom would be considered ineligible for resettlement in the U.S. under the new policy. What will happen to these immigrants is still unclear. An American diplomat in Bangkok explained that the new U.S. policy is meant as a warning for potential refugees...
...Reagan Administration recently instructed Court Guard and Navy ships to stop boatloads of U.S. bound Haitians at sea and return them to Haiti; those that make it to America get detained Reagan maintains former President Jimmy Carter's position that Haitians do not qualify for asylum because they flee economic conditions, not political ones. This distinction, however, becomes blurred in light of U.S. support for the Duvalier regime...
...HATHAN refugees have been arrested and incarcerated over the last few years as illegal aliens in the United States and Pucto Rico--because the United States says they are the wrong type of refugee. Wrong in that they are poor and Black. Wrong in that the horror they flee in merely "economic," not "political" And wrong in that the immediate cause of their misery, the Haitian government, is militarily and economically maintained by the United States...
...Spanish governor ruled in somnolent serenity until 1806, when Spain was succumbing to Napoleon, and Spanish rule in Buenos Aires was attacked by the British. The Spanish governor of the Falklands decided to flee, leaving the islands without any government at all. The population dwindled to a few lawless gauchos and wandering fishermen...