Word: boated
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Under heavy military guard, the first planeloads of Cuban refugees were forcibly returned from Panama to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Last September President Ernesto Perez Balladares agreed to allow up to 10,000 boat people to stay in Panama at U.S. detention camps for a six-month period. Nearly 8,000 Cuban children and close relatives have since qualified to emigrate to the U.S., provided they have full financial sponsorship. To transfer the remaining refugees by the March 6 deadline, American forces will airlift out 500 people almost every...
...fooled by its location. Just becauseit's on a boat doesn't make the museuminteresting. For $4.80 (the student rate) you canlearn everything you've always wanted to knowabout the pre-Revolutionary War tea trade. Plusyou get to throw a "crate of tea" overboard intothe harbor. Caution: don't touch the water...
...Greenwood, a project coordinator for an American Jewish human-rights organization, described a U.S. rabbi's shock upon finding a Russian Orthodox icon in a Jewish family's living room. ``The reason,'' says Greenwood, ``is that all religion was so repressed. Jews and Christians were all in the same boat. People simply want to satisfy their religious longings...
Whether by refusing to admit a boat carrying helpless Jewish refugees into an American harbor, or by opting not to bomb the railroad tracks to the death camps, the United States government fell far short of moral perfection in its policy towards the Holocaust...
...group would top the charts. Despite the almost cult-like devotion that the band has inspired in a limited number of American fans, a year later the group's popularity is still out to sea, bobbing around with countless other British pop upstarts that never quite make the boat...