Word: boated
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...many as 30 more Haitians may have died in the capsizing of a boat packed with 200, reported Edward J. Barnes, TIME's correspondent in Haiti. This is the second major boating tragedy reported there since a liberalized U.S. immigration policy took effect June 16, and probablyjust one in a long line of similar unreported incidents, according to Barnes. To stem the tide, the U.S. announced a new policy to send as many as 10,000 refugees to Panama, rather than Guantanamo Bay which is closer to the U.S. The White House made the decision after Monday's showing...
...flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat people froze in fear," Barnes reports. "The refugees tried to stay quiet and hide, hoping the (police) boat would pass. Then three shots rang out in the darkness and there was chaos." Panicked boat people pushed others into the water, and the boat's boom broke free, knocking still more...
Shotgun-toting attaches, the irregular ruffians who back up the military, boasted that they would fend off any foreign invasion. "We turned their boat back once, and we will turn them back again," claimed a gunman. "When the Americans land, we will be issued grenades and M1s. We are supposed to start firing right away to keep control of the population." He said his superiors had warned that if a U.S. invasion succeeds, "they will make certain the attaches get no jobs and don't eat" -- an effective threat in a country where only the luckiest have work or regular...
...first Haitian boat people were processed aboard a U.S. Navy ship in Kingston, Jamaica, to see if they qualified for asylum in the U.S. Six of 35 petitioners, who were picked up from three small boats, made the cut; the rest will be sent back...
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