Word: fleeing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...after wavering all night, declared their loyalty to him. Outmanned, the paratroopers fled. When a throng of civilians advanced on the palace waving "Diem Must Go" signs, the pro-Diem marines fired point-blank into the packed crowd, killing at least six and wounding dozens. Colonel Dong tried to flee aboard a DC-3 but was forced down and captured...
Pointing to his own experiences, Tambo said that he had been forced to flee the country to escape arrest. A few days later the government jailed many members of his party...
...Chief Rajeshwar Dayal of India made it obvious that the U.N. was ready to scrap Mobutu. The nervous colonel, they whispered, had asked Dayal for an apartment in Le Royal, the U.N.'s headquarters building. He no longer was in control of his army. He was about to flee the city. He was a poor officer. Ignoring the roughhouse tactics of Lumumba's own gangs, an official report spoke of "the highhanded and illegal activities" of Mobutu's army, accusing the army of "acts of lawlessness...
...retinue, which was so large that it spilled out of the Sheik's palatial villa on the shores of Lake Geneva into hotels near by, where the damage to furnishings one season amounted to $20,000. And when the cool weather arrived up north, the whole entourage would flee across the Mediterranean to Ali's magnificent mansion on the heights above Beirut, purchased from a Saudi sheik for a reported...
Most of our people are former political prisoners and freedom fighters who had to flee their country and have to work hard in order to earn a living...