91.   Gen. Hekmat Shehabi, who had been the army chief of staff, fled the country rather than face a graft investigation.

92.   Half a million people fled the country.

93.   Half its population perished, and any survivors, like the Jews who lived through the Holocaust, fled the country en masse.

94.   He applied for political asylum and his case was pending before immigration officials when he fled the country using a false passport and made his way to Iraq.

95.   He flees the country to seek asylum.

96.   He fled the country, saying members of the new military regime had told him to either leave or die.

97.   He has been criticized by other opposition leaders for fleeing the country at a time of national crisis.

98.   Hanson and Hawkins fled the country, with Hanson getting cosmetic surgery to alter his looks while authorities pursued their case against Boggs.

99.   Having declared that he would never resign his office, he refused to flee the country in a plane offered by the generals.

100.   He also said the hard-line foreigners had persuaded the Taliban to harass U.N. workers into fleeing the country and to prosecute eight Christian aid workers.