Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many of the Khmer Rouge fled Cambodia following an internecine struggle inside Angka six months ago. The reason for the purge: some of the older organization men dared to propose moderating changes in what had become in effect a penal society. They were eliminated for making these suggestions. In the village of Tien Kam, for instance, the Khmer Rouge "controller" was killed by a girl of 18-who then took his place...
...1830s thousands of settlers fled British rule by migrating into the interior in ox-drawn wagons. There were bitter fights between the voortrekkers and black tribes migrating from the north in search of fresh grazing land. The discovery of gold in the Transvaal in 1886 led to an invasion of white English-speaking settlers?and eventually to Afrikaner defeat in the Anglo-Boer...
Driven by persecution from Mecca after he had started preaching the new religion, the Prophet Mohammed wept as he left his home and fled to Medina. He had been born and raised there among his tribe and often had shepherded his uncle's flock on its mountains. And in one of those lonely mountains was the cave where he had received the very first revelation announcing the deliverance of a new and final message...
...against the dollar, from 10.3 to 15.2. Prices of essential consumer goods, no longer kept deliberately cheap by big government subsidies, began climbing in stages that even government economists predict will lead to a 45% inflation rate over the next 18 months. Yet no excessive amounts of capital fled the country, and a flurry of food hoarding ended within a few days. Boasted Finance Minister Simcha Erlich...
...acts of terror from inside their prison cells. Some 70 radical lawyers are suspected of aiding terrorists. Most celebrated may be Klaus Croissant, 47, Baader's attorney, who is believed to have carried messages from gang members inside prison to those outside. Arrested last July, Croissant jumped bail and fled to France, where, after nearly three months underground, he was caught by police in late September. He now faces possible extradition to West Germany...