Word: flees
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More than three years of siege and massacre have scarred this city. More than 10,500 Sarajevans have been killed, and the living who did not flee long ago have survived with only intermittent supplies of power, water and fresh food . They have been shelled and shot at almost daily. Virtually all of them have lost someone they knew or loved. Only once in the past 41 months have they enjoyed a period of relative peace, and it took a massacre in the same area to bring it about. When a Serb shell killed 68 people and wounded an additional...
...cabdriver Robert Chobert, told police on the night of the shooting that a man much larger than Abu-Jamal had stood over Faulkner and fired shots, then "ran away." Abu-Jamal's lawyers say other witnesses who did not testify also reported seeing a heavyset man shoot Faulkner and flee. As for Bell's testimony, defense lawyers question why the officer waited more than two months to report the alleged confession...
...itself. The writer declares "any attempt to attribute this mass exodus [of the Palestinians in 1948] to a single cause is only true in part, and therefore false." It seems it would be slightly more precise to say that although there were other pressures upon the Palestinians to flee their homeland in 1948, one indisputable cause of the mass exodus was the brutal violence with which the Israeli militia drove the civilian population out. The article does concede that "it was the policy of the Israeli High Command to secure the evacuation by the Arabs." Yet it fails to explain...
...Arab populations of areas into which the Israeli army entered; in part, the Arabs, unlike the Jews, had somewhere to go if they wanted to avoid the terrors of war and the very possibility of escape became a source of their weakness. After all, those who have nowhere to flee cling most tenaciously to their existing ground. This was the Jewish strength...
...anabrupt policy reversal, President Clinton today agreed to allow some20,000 Cuban refugees currently detained at Guantanamo Bayinto the U.S. Any other Cubans who flee their country will be forcibly returned home -- a provision to which Havana had not previously agreed.TIME Diplomatic correspondent J.F.O. McAllistersays the unexpected pact, announced this afternoon, is an effort to avert what the U.S. military worried would be new riots in the refugee camps in the hot summer months. (The Administration said it was increasingly concerned about the safety of some 6,000 American troops now stationed at Guantanamo.) That's not the only reason...