Word: flees
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life soon changes into an ominous reality for the boy. Strangers try to abduct him. His mother's small inheritance is wiped out through bad investments, all recommended by an attorney who is supposed to protect her anonymity and interests. The two of them are forced to flee from their village and hide in the capaciousness of the capital: "Long before I saw London I smelt it in the bitter smoke of sea-coal that began to prickle my nostrils and the back of my throat, and then I saw the dark cloud on the horizon that grew and grew...
Even those who planned their escape had harrowing experiences. Last Sunday Marina Chobanyan, a widow, boarded the Baku-Moscow express to flee the gathering storm. She settled into her seat in the tenth car, thankful to be getting out alive; when the train did not leave on schedule, she began to worry. Suddenly a band of Azerbaijanis burst into the car. "I was ordered to hand over all my papers and valuables, including my wedding rings," she said. "I refused, and they dragged me off the train by my hair." Herded through the streets of Baku, Chobanyan and several other...
...Bulgarian turmoil is a classic of ethnic politics. Zhivkov tried to solve the minority problem by denying the Turks a separate existence and forcing them to assimilate or flee to Turkey. His successor, Petar Mladenov, reversed that policy. Prime Minister Georgi Atanasov told angry demonstrators, "If we Bulgarians want to be free, then all the people must be free." Last week the National Assembly approved measures that guarantee rights for the Turks, and set up a commission to review the issue...
...Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal rule of Cambodia from 1975 to 1978 invited the invasion of Vietnamese troops, really attacked the capital, Phnom Penh? Had Prime Minister Hun Sen been forced to flee to Viet Nam? Was Battambang, the country's second largest city, truly "burning brightly," as Khmer Rouge radio claimed? Amid the welter of conflicting reports coming out of Cambodia last week, all that seemed clear was that the level of hostilities was growing. The Khmer Rouge, one of three resistance groups fighting the Hun Sen regime, did toss six grenades in downtown Phnom Penh -- though without frightening away...
Khmer Rouge guerrillas claimed they attacked the Cambodian capital with grenades Saturday night, forcing the premier and president to flee toward Vietnam. But the claim could not be confirmed, and previous communist Khmer Rouge claims have been exaggerated...