Word: hideout
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...veiled downtown Manhattan, and the Twin Towers appeared to be gone. As if stolen, the magnificent architectural masterpieces were nowhere to be seen. On these mornings I wondered if Carmen Sandiego had plucked the towers out of the World Trade Center and carried them off to her secret hideout...
...Montesinos Nabbed Vladimiro Montesinos, ex-President Alberto Fujimori's intelligence boss, is now behind bars after an eight-month manhunt. He is being questioned on bribery, money laundering and murder charges. Venezuelan cops nabbed Montesinos in Caracas, a step ahead of Peruvian agents, who had been alerted to the hideout by the FBI. The ex-spymaster may have evidence linking Fujimori to murders of dissidents and guerrillas. Japan, where Fujimori has taken refuge, has refused to turn him over. Following Montesinos' capture, Peru recalled its ambassador to Tokyo...
...bandit Veerappan; after 108 days in jungle captivity; in Bangalore, India. Veerappan, who is accused of 120 murders but has eluded capture for 30 years and is regarded as a hero among Tamil separatists, took a $2.17 million ransom raised by two Indian state governments and retreated to his hideout, forgoing his demand for the release of government prisoners...
Allison flew off to join Frankel in Rome on June 18. She felt sorry for him, she claims. He had sounded desperate when he called her from his Rome hideout, terrified of being alone, eager to engage in idle chat and already growing nostalgic for the life he had left behind. He had grown wistful, coming to realize that there was no returning to his Greenwich mansion and the financial Xanadu he had created...
...exiled long ago, and a visitor finds himself lost in a lightless labyrinth of sorts, in which every path leads to a cul-de-sac. On paper at least, this is a time of hope for ill-starred Cambodia. Last year Pol Pot finally died in his jungle hideout, and just before the new year, two of the last three Khmer Rouge leaders, Khieu Samphan and Nuon Chea, turned themselves in for a while to the government of Hun Sen. The last Khmer Rouge bigwig still at large, Ta Mok, a one-legged general known as the Butcher, was captured...