Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...string of victories seems to have run out. A force of some 5,000 rebels last week captured the Roberts Field International Airport; occupied the Firestone rubber plantation, the country's largest private employer; and drew up on the outskirts of Monrovia, the capital. Refusing to resign or flee, Doe barricaded himself in the executive mansion with several hundred members of his Israeli-trained elite guard. He vowed that the insurgents would take the city "over my dead body...
June 5-30: Crackdown continues. Troops seize the universities. Some students flee the country. Workers sympathetic to the democracy movement are arrested. Amnesty International reports over 1000 workers and students executed...
...dusk last Monday, Norma Corona Sapienz, 38, president of the State Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Culiacan, on Mexico's Pacific Coast, was driving home from work when three men in a pickup blocked her path. She tried to flee on foot. Suddenly gunfire rang out, and five bullets tore through the prominent attorney's back, killing her instantly...
...Others flee the field because of the risk of malpractice suits. "In the E.R. you're a sitting duck for malpractice, and people here know it," says Dr. Rosenthal. For all their heroic efforts, emergency-room doctors have little chance to establish a continuing relationship with patients and little time for tenderness. The waits can be long, the treatments painful and the sheer volume of patients high. "You have to work quickly during an emergency," she says, "with a lot of angry people, in a climate in which lawsuits are used by people to express their anger...
...A.N.C., which has turned the green hills of Natal province into South Africa's worst killing field. Since Mandela's release in February, Buthelezi's supporters have repeatedly invaded A.N.C. strongholds with shotguns and pangas. The upsurge in violence has left some 350 dead and forced 7,000 to flee...