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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, was forced to flee to India...

Author: By Benjamin A. Stingle, | Title: Monk Describes Torture | 5/1/1997 | See Source »

Rajavi, a former student leader trained as a metallurgical engineer, rules the rebel force together with her husband Massoud, who was head of the People's Mujahedin when the Shah was overthrown and exiled in 1979. Massoud was soon forced to flee the country as the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began killing and imprisoning Massoud's largely secular followers. Since then Maryam and Massoud have built up not only one of the world's most formidable rebel armies but a sophisticated resistance movement as well, with offices around the world, plus five radio stations and a new satellite-television network that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED WOMEN OF IRAN | 4/21/1997 | See Source »

Torres was arrested on June 25 after authorities learned that he was planning to flee the country, The Crimson reported in February...

Author: By Courtney A. Coursey, | Title: Suspected Book Thief Arraigned On New Counts | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...real issue is broader than blocked Jewish assets and laundered money. It is the conflict between neutrality and moral integrity. My family was German, anti-Nazi and somewhat linked to the assassination attempt on Hitler. In July 1944 they had no other choice than to flee to Switzerland and seek refuge with relatives. Big surprise: the Swiss authorities accepted the four children in the family but turned back the five adults, who were caught, delivered to the Gestapo and imprisoned. When the U.S. Army closed in on Germany, my father succeeded in escaping, but other family members, along with other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 17, 1997 | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...president to form a coalition with the socialists and call early elections. Berisha remains cold to these demands. Meanwhile%2 C residents in the south are scrambling to stock up on food and blankets and today the Italian coast guard intercepted fishing boats filled with 65 Albanians desperate to flee the chaos at home. Independent media has all but disappeared under police press ure as reporters have been attacked and beaten and several are seeking amnesty at Tirana embassies. "This is no more a matter of having an independent press or not," said Koha Jon? publisher Nikoll? Lesi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Collapsing Pyramid | 3/7/1997 | See Source »

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