Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, Port-au-Prince police chief Michel Francois, and Philippe Biamby, the army chief of staff. "There's a general consensus here," the Pentagon official says, "that if we cut off the head, the monster will die." Whether the trio would be imprisoned or allowed to flee remains an open question. "We can take the thugs out easily," says Edney. "You never can say with no casualties, but I think we could come very close...
...switch, so far at least, improved the situation in Haiti. Refugees were continuing to flee at the rate of 2,000 a day. Ad-hoc refugee camps at Guantanamo naval base and elsewhere were jammed to capacity, and Coast Guard cutters were nearly overwhelmed. In the Haitian countryside, many villages are being depopulated by the exodus; once bustling main streets are now virtually deserted, and more homes seem to be boarded up than inhabited...
Keeping a united front remained as much a problem in Washington as in Haiti. Still biting the hand that's trying to free him, exiled President Aristide argued against a U.S. plan to transmit prodemocracy radio messages from military airplanes if the messages urge Haitians not to flee the country. And human-rights advocate Randall Robinson, after spending time on the American hospital ship where Haitian refugees are being questioned, declared the immigration process a sham. So far only 52 of the 289 refugees interviewed at sea have been granted refugee status...
...military police fired Wednesday on a 60-foot sailboat full of refugees trying to take to sea, setting off a panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat people...
...Minnesota it's more like a divorce. With polls showing him favored by Republican voters 3 to 1 over Quist, Carlson will challenge the Republican nominee in a primary battle this September. If the Quist forces prevail, he warns, voters will flee to the Democrats. "The Republican legislative caucus will be able to meet in a phone booth." Or maybe the new triumphs of the religious right will be a wake-up call for the rest of the party...