Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laughing matter, however. In the past two weeks, three ferries have been hijacked by refugees trying to flee Cuba. And when crowds started gathering on Havana's Malecon seafront drive last Friday to see if hijackers would commandeer yet another boat, the police moved in, sparking a rock- throwing melee and the worst anti-government demonstrations since Fidel Castro came to power...
...divert attention from his own domestic situation, which has deteriorated rapidly since the flow of economic support from Moscow was sharply cut in the early 1990s. But he also has a point. The U.S. makes it easy to defect from Cuba by allowing entry to all those who successfully flee. At the same time, the number of visas granted to enter the U.S. legally is limited...
Sure, there's a real generation gap these days. It's reflected in the debate over which decade is worthiest of feeling nostalgic for. People of the '90s flee from the saggy current Zeitgeist toward some more wired, more meaningful time. The '60s and '70s have attracted big cults, but to true devotees of deja voodoo, the golden age was the '50s. Survivors of that era rise from their golf carts and shout, "We don't need no stinkin' Woodstock! And Watergate nostalgia is for wonks! Listen, pal, I was a teenage teenager. I want the '50s -- Ike, Mad, duck...
...west (towards Zaire), pushing an estimated 1.75 million Rwandan refugees ahead of them. The exiled Hutu Government fled into the French controlled safe zone in southwestern Rwanda. From this haven, the deposed Hutu leaders broadcast messages of ethnic hatred and revenge over Radio Milles Collines urging their countrymen to flee or be killed at the hands of the RPF. These radio broadcasts have caused widespread panic and fueled the exodus. And therefore Rwanda has become what one observer called a "nation with out people...
France's 2,500 soldiers began their planned pullout, setting off fears that 2 million Hutu refugees under their protection could flee to the camps in Zaire. U.N. and U.S. soldiers hope to stem that tide, by creating "way stations" and offering promises that refugees will be safe under the new Rwandan government...