Word: flee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many Americans open their kind hearts to donate food, clothing and money to those refugee children who are being brought to the U.S.? But what about the starving black child in the ghetto, the poor Indian on the reservation, or the ragged-clothed youngster in Appalachia? Where can they flee to? How many special funds are set up for them...
...larger mysteries surrounding the collapse of most of South Viet Nam is the fate of an estimated 9 million people who did not-or could not-flee from the 19 provinces overrun by North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. Hanoi has officially refused to permit the handful of foreign correspondents stationed in the North Vietnamese capital to visit the captured areas. Thus most of the scattered reports about conditions in South Viet Nam's northern provinces have been issued by the "Liberation Press Agency" of the Provisional Revolutionary Government. These euphoric communiqués stress the "delirious welcomes from...
...some flee altogether--by choice or by Administrative Board edict--to the outside world for a time, to puzzle things out and try to determine where they fit into Harvard, and where it fits into their life...
Agreed: the hero, Captain Bluntschli, does load his revolver with chocolates and does flee the battlefield when the Bulgarian army mounts a charge, but this is not comedy, this is the natural response of a reasoning man to the horrors of war. How opposed to the flatulent conceits of the Bulgarians, for whom heroism is embodied by bewhiskered Sergei Saranoff leading the harebrained charge, and for whom "higher love" is typified by the couple that coos and clutches effusively. Yet in spite of the laughter still echoing in the theater--for this is a funny play--Bluntschli wins out soberly...
...Israel Emergency Fund is used for the integration of immigrants, for the most part refugees. In earlier years they came principally from Arab countries, which they were forced to flee; recently they have come mostly from Soviet Russia. The sums raised by the Israel Emergency Fund scarcely meet the costs of immigrant integration, and are supplemented by funds raised by the state of Israel through the heaviest taxation in the world. To argue against the humanitarian work of the Israel Emergency Fund because Israel must buy arms and maintain armed forces to defend itself is vicious or stupid: such...