Word: fled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moderate who fled to the waiting embrace of the Democrats in 1973 is Michigan Congressman Donald Riegle. He felt that his faction of the party no longer had any influence. "We were like the tail of the dog; we couldn't wag the dog." A Republican pondering whether to follow Riegle's example is Maryland's Charles Mathias (see box). Another moderate, Manhattan Lawyer Rita Hauser, former U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, complains: "We are viewed by the right wing as if we were lepers. I have nothing against conservatives, but they are not willing...
Surprise Attack. The breaking point came, according to several survivors, with another trick. Red Cross trucks approached the camp, and the defenders thought they were part of an already settled plan to evacuate noncombatants. They held their fire. Thereupon Christian troopers launched a surprise attack while the trucks fled...
...soldiers stood guard in the northern Italian town of Seveso, hundreds of villagers last week loaded into their cars or hand-drawn carts the few belongings they were allowed to take, then fled southward. Behind them they left the bodies of scores of animals in a desolated area now sealed off by barbed wire. The cause of the exodus: a cloud of toxic gas caused by an explosion at a chemical plant in Meda, twelve miles north of Milan...
...long illness; in Los Angeles. A tall, terse perfectionist, Lang was "profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death." M, for example, was a horrifying study of a compulsive child murderer. When his next film, The Last Will of Dr. Mabuse (1932), was banned by the Third Reich, Lang fled to Hollywood, where he spent 20 highly successful years working with stars like Spencer Tracy and Henry Fonda in a variety of social melodramas, westerns and thrillers...
...Angeles, Symbionese Liberation Army Members Bill and Emily Harris got into a sidewalk struggle with employees at Mel's Sporting Goods Store over Bill's alleged shoplifting. Across the street the Harrises' captive-turned-comrade, Patty Hearst, opened up with covering fire. The trio then fled and switched one after another to four vehicles that they appropriated; in two cases the owners were also taken along. The Harrises conceded all that in their current trial for assault, robbery and kidnaping. What then was their defense to be? Last week the answer came: they offered no witnesses...