Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Jaworski was talking tough in Washington, the Korean government was stonewalling a visiting team of U.S. law enforcement officials in Seoul. Assistant Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti and two associates sought a way to question Tongsun Park, Korea's Washington host with the most, who fled the U.S. before a federal grand jury indicted him on 36 violations of federal statutes, including bribery and fraud. After almost 30 hours of wrangling, during which the Koreans insisted they alone should control the interrogation of Park, the U.S. delegation returned home exhausted, frustrated and emptyhanded...
...have gotten 125 addicts off their habits, most of them heroin users. However, his initial experimental program came to an abrupt halt in 1967 when police closed down his operation while Humes was away from Rome. Upon learning that the clinic had been put out of business, Humes then fled to Paris where he spent about five months in 1968 pursuing his research into detoxification methods and participating in the Paris uprising of that year. Humes returned to the United States in 1969 and set up shop in Princeton, lecturing informally at various campuses in the area on his work...
...poverty level. But the decision was also in keeping with the town's combative political reputation. The birthplace of the militant Mexican-American La Raza Unida (the United Race) Party, Crystal City has stressed racial solidarity at the expense of economic growth. As taxes soared, businesses have fled...
...fiery river 40 ft. deep and 1,000 ft. wide flowed toward the tiny (pop. 100) village of Kalapana at a rate that reached 1,000 ft. per hr. Many residents of the village fled. But some stayed, including a 70-year-old storekeeper named Walter Yamaguchi. "If Pele wants my store, Pele will take my store," said Yamaguchi, who remained open to serve firefighters and National Guardsmen called out to protect Kalapana. "But no way it's going to come...
...writing her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne on the psychology of women in The Thousand and One Nights; both for the first time; at Monaco's royal palace. The infant Fuad was King-for-a-day in Egypt after his father abdicated in 1952, but his parents fled for Europe that night with him, his three half sisters and an estimated $40 million aboard the royal yacht...