Word: fled
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...province and killed several hundred Ugandan soldiers in hit-and-run attacks. Ugandan reinforcements, and several thousand of the Tanzanian troops who have remained in Uganda since overthrowing Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum is now rotting in the fields simply because there is no one left to harvest...
...house was hit by a fusillade of rifle fire. Tekere and his bodyguards returned to the farmhouse the next day and attacked a nearby barracks occupied by five black soldiers of the national army, who were suspected of taking part in the previous night's assault. The soldiers fled to safety. The farm's white manager, 68-year-old Gerald ("Bill") Adams, was shot dead by one of Tekere's confederates as he tried to radio for help. The gunman, Joseph Chakanetsa, claimed to have fired in self-defense when Adams threatened him with a pistol...
...homecoming for Diana and Gerald Green. Almost two years ago, the Scituate, Mass., couple fled to Mexico, rather than obey a state court order to resume chemotherapy for their three-year-old son Chad, who suffered from leukemia. The Greens were determined to enroll Chad in a Tijuana clinic where he could receive laetrile, the controversial drug scorned by the medical establishment but touted by some cancer patients as a miracle worker. After nine months of treatment, Chad was dead. The Greens were left childless as well as homeless, with criminal and civil contempt charges pending against them in Plymouth...
...First Communion, were attending evening Mass when the marble floor began to heave and the heavy candlesticks to wobble on the main altar. "It was as though a giant passing train had shaken the building to its foundations," recalled Father Giuseppe Pagliuca, the parish priest. As the terrified congregation fled toward the doors, the huge roof split in two and collapsed, throwing Pagliuca clear but burying the worshipers under a mountain of stone. The bleeding figure of a town official landed at the priest's feet. "Lord have mercy on me," the man whispered, and then died...
Many on the upper floors fled to the hotel's roof, while those still stranded in their rooms crowded onto balconies screaming for help. Others, seeking fresh air, shattered windows with pieces of furniture. "There was a lot of smoke in the hallway, and you had no idea how fast the fire was spreading," says Pat England, a hotel employee who was on the eighth floor. "It was horrible...