Word: flees
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...have been conditioned not to view humans as enemies. "These animals are used to the click of the camera, not the crack of the rifle," argued Wayne Pacelle, national director of the Fund for Animals, in an editorial in USA Today. "When the hunters approach, the animals don't flee. They merely stare at their bloodthirsty executioners." Last year three antihunting protesters were arrested and charged with attacking hunters and game wardens with cross-country ski poles...
Bush asks Congress to write off Egypt's $7-billion debt in appreciation for help in the gulf. Iraq offers free oil to Third World countries. Iraqi soldiers move into French diplomatic compound in Kuwait. Iraq opens Kuwait's borders, and thousands of Kuwaitis attempts to flee...
Fearing persecution, ethnic Greeks chose to flee at the first word that border guards would not stand in their way. The countryside the refugees left behind is a wasteland of want. Virtually the only meat rural families saw last year was half a chicken distributed to each household on Nov. 29, the National Day. By contrast, even the icy refugee camps, such as Kalpaki in northern Greece, seem like paradise, providing shelter and plentiful food. Said a high- ranking Greek official: "The question is, Where does one draw the line? We don't want to make them feel too comfortable...
...political leanings of the immigrants may not be so monolithic. Of the 185,000 Jews who left the U.S.S.R. for Israel last year, some did so out of religious fervor, some to flee from anti-Semitism, many to escape hunger and civil unrest. Nearly one-third of the estimated 3.5 million Jews remaining in the Soviet Union are expected in Israel by 1992, increasing the Israeli population 20%. For them Israel offers the only readily available alternative, now that access to the U.S. and Canada has been sharply restricted...
...busing is not the solution to the ferocious problems afflicting inner-city schools. In the past, all-black schools were considered by many blacks and white liberals an anathema to be destroyed by court order. No longer. They are a growing phenomenon in urban America, as whites continue to flee to the suburbs. Unlike the institutions created by the forced segregation that existed until the Supreme Court outlawed the practice in 1954, these schools are a function of changing demography, not of statutes. Disillusioned and frustrated by the failure of busing to improve the quality of education for their children...