1.   Across the boulevard, Denise and Robert Goga are preparing to flee the island for Austin for a week.

2.   But it is unable to prevent the exodus of Venetians, who keep fleeing the island for better jobs and cheaper housing on the mainland.

3.   But stories of the thousands of desperate people fleeing the island have dominated conversation for weeks.

4.   More than the children have fled this island.

5.   The U.S. ban on all exports to Cuba, including food and medicine, fuels the very hardships that drive Cubans to flee the island.

6.   With Corregidor about to fall to the Japanese, Gause fled the island in a native outrigger and Dalton was sent to a Japanese prison.

7.   Police believe two of them fled the island in a speedboat, while the other two were thought to be hiding out on the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao.

8.   Police believe two of the prisoners fled the island in a speedboat, while the other two were thought to be hiding out on this Dutch Caribbean island.

9.   Abderemanein apparently fled the island Sunday.

10.   After an investigation was launched, the captain and crew fled the island, the lawsuit states.