Word: aruba
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, leaving behind $7.3 billion. After Hugo, cancellations poured in, even for destinations not touched by the storm. "Part of our problem is fighting people's terrible knowledge of geography," says John Bell, executive vice president of the Caribbean Hotel Association. "There were groups dropping out of trips to Aruba and Barbados, which were hundreds of miles from Hugo's path." So even as an army of workers moved in, a phalanx of hoteliers and government officials set out to persuade the travel industry that there would be no trouble in paradise this winter...
...chimney stacks along the St. Nicolaas beach on Aruba no longer belch smoke into the luminous tropical air. After 60 years of refining more than 6.5 billion bbl. of crude, including 1 out of every 16 bbl. of aircraft fuel used by Allied forces in World War II, Exxon's Lago refinery, once the largest in the world, will shut down this week. The closing marks the end of an era in the world oil industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better...
...bleak oil-refinery situation is not limited to Aruba. The Caribbean's eight major refineries are cutting production, and more than 100 U.S. refineries have ceased operating since 1981. Additional closings are expected. Texaco is shutting down its 65,000-bbl.-a-day plant in Lawrenceville, Ill., and a 20,000-bbl.-a-day operation in Amarillo, Texas. Since September, the company has halved the capacity of its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery...
...onetime clerk for a U.S. oil company in Aruba, Blaize first won a seat in Grenada's colonial Parliament in 1957. In 1960 he served as the island's interim Chief Minister for 14 months before losing an election to Gairy. When his opponent was forced out of office 18 months later for "financial irregularities," Blaize won a five-year term as government leader. During that time he took a correspondence course in law, finally earning a degree after ten years. Critics claim that Blaize's first term was uninspired; supporters answer that his patience and caution...
...route from Caracas to Curaçao with 87 passengers and crew aboard, was hijacked by self-proclaimed Haitian Rebel Hilertaut Dominique and his Dominican accomplice Felix Segundo Castillo. Armed with gasoline and pistols, the two forced the pilot to fly the plane first to Trinidad, then to Aruba, and finally to Cura...