Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay on or step down as President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide confirmed his intention to leave office at the end of his five-year term in February 1996. Presidential elections are set for Dec. 17. Relations with the U.S. turned increasingly sour as some 1,100 Haitian boat people were repatriated by the Coast Guard last week, more than the total number returned to Haiti in the past 10 months. Aristide, who has never agreed to forced repatriation, argues that the resurgence of boat people is the result of economic hardship, which U.S. aid would alleviate. He also accused...
...other news from the HUPD's weekly blotter, a notarial seal from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was stolen from Holyoke Center, and the Harvard Sailing Center reported a stolen boat which was later found hidden behind some bushes. A motorcycle valued at $130 was also stolen from an unlocked office in the Science Center...
Participants then studied drawings of objects--including pictures of a boat, telephone, bell, and clock--and learned to visualize them, after which they were shown boxes of three different sizes to standardize the notions of small, medium and large...
...that, except in extreme circumstances, the most potent mechanism to promote international order--armed force--is irrelevant to addressing the international issues Americans most worry about. Instead the U.S. and its allies must look after problem countries' internal health: to dry up the poverty that spawns drug growers, boat people and terrorists; to encourage clean and responsive governments capable of addressing grievances. What kind of U.S. foreign policy can foster such conditions? The tools Washington has inherited from the cold war, designed to defend territory and prop up clients, are certainly unsuited to the task...
Haitian radio reports that 47 Haitian refugees drowned Friday when their flimsy and overcrowded boat capsized as it started a journey north. "There will most likely be an escalation of violence as the elections approach, and this could jeopardize the American presence there," says Drummond. About 2,500 American troops remain in Haiti as part of a larger United Nations peacekeeping force. They were scheduled to leave the island next February...