Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kuwait had built -- as a token of friendship with Iraq -- to link the two countries, the troops made the 37 miles to the capital, Kuwait City, in just four hours. "It was chaos in the streets," said Stephanie McGehee, a photographer who witnessed the attack. Panicked residents tried to flee south toward Saudi Arabia, but the Iraqis forced people out of their autos and angrily ripped out car phones -- no rarity in a country with so many wealthy citizens -- presumably because they could be used to communicate troop positions...
While an estimated 300 Iraqi tanks prowled the city, an additional 50 surrounded the Emir's palace and the nearby U.S. embassy. But the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah, and his family were able to flee to Saudi Arabia by helicopter. Though the invaders had quickly seized Kuwait's radio and television station, a hidden transmitter continued to broadcast exhortations to resist the raiding foreigners and pleas for help from other Arab states. "O Arabs, Kuwait's blood and honor are being violated. Rush to its rescue!" cried a voice thought to be the crown prince...
...while tactically adroit, underscored Bush's need to move cautiously across a domestic playing field that suddenly looks less dismal to Democrats eyeing 1992. The shift results mainly from the government's failure to contain the mounting deficit (estimated at $169 billion for fiscal 1991), which forced Bush to flee never-never land on the tax issue. That, along with the soaring costs of the S&L scandal and other problems, is beginning to eat into Bush's standing in the polls and will echo over the next two years. Says Ed Rollins, a Republican strategist: "Whether...
...civil war forced Fossey to flee the Congo for Rwanda, where she established Karisoke Research Centre and generally shunned the company of her own species. "All of you have a family, a marriage and kids," she told curious visitors. "Those gorillas are my family...
...best friend who was killed just now -- stops for a second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately white wedding gown. The fugitive speaks with a distracted courtesy, wanting to be polite but needing to flee for his life, and then vanishes into an alley. The owner of the shop slams down his steel curtain over the window with the wedding gown. The mannequin bride goes blank...