41.   He fled shortly before his indictment on a variety of mob-related charges.

42.   He fled just before the Indonesian annexation, lives in Australia, and says he bears no responsibility for bloodshed.

43.   He said an unidentified supervisor spotted the fire and sounded an alarm, alerting fellow workers who fled shortly before the first blast.

44.   He said the OSCE was trying to persuade villagers who fled before the start of shelling to return.

45.   Hoskins fled before police could arrive, the detective said.

46.   Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans fled before the North Korean invaders, many of them crossing U.S. front lines safely.

47.   In a separate development, concern mounted over the fate of villagers in former rebel territory who fled before the advancing army.

48.   It appeared that some of those who stormed the building had fled before the standoff ended.

49.   It has refrained from bringing pressure on the small band of human rights and democracy campaigners who refused to flee before British rule ended.

50.   Like the refugees, Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica fled before the Serb advance.