Possible Clues:

• One fleeing his country before catching plane
• Settler from a foreign land
• One fleeing persecution, say
• One fleeing persecution, perhaps
• Benazir Bhutto, once
• An American in Paris, maybe
• One in flight from France before plane's boarded
• Mayflower passenger, e.g.
• Frenchman who couldn't adapt to a new regime?
• Upset the writer, with anger about good person coming from Russia without love, perhaps