Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guam has a reef all around it," Cole says. "Myboat got stuck on the reef. I opened the ramp tolet the soldiers out. The water came in, and theboat sank," Cole says. The boat was latersalvaged, he says, because "the water was not verydeep...
...Eliot Ness). "Since then," Permut says, "I've been brought just about every TV show imaginable. Last week somebody came into my office pitching the Baldwin brothers as My Three Sons." Permut helped set up The Beverly Hillbillies, and is now preparing Green Acres, National Lampoon's Love Boat and Gilligan's Island -- films with simple aims and B-list directors. "I'm not going to be talking with Marty Scorsese about Love Boat," Permut says...
...endear him to the President. But Hamilton "would bring some professionalism to the amateur hour around here," says a State Department official. "If we'd changed our refugee policy on Lee's watch, you can bet there would have been some interim way of dealing with the Haitian boat people before we got the new procedures in place. We wouldn't be turning people back and looking ridiculous. After all, the reason for our change is that those we've sent back so far are being brutalized when they're returned...
...implement President Clinton's new Haitian refugee policy, the Pentagon announced it has chartered two Ukrainian vessels that will process the U.S.-asylum applications of Haitian boat people at sea. Pending the ships' deployment, though, the Administration returned home more than 1,000 Haitians...
Amid increasing tension and rumors of a possible armed intervention, the U.S. took steps to focus its policy toward Haiti. President Clinton appointed a new special envoy to the country: William Gray, a former Congressman from Pennsylvania. The White House also announced that Haitian boat people would now be permitted hearings at sea to determine whether they should be allowed political asylum. Meanwhile the Haitian military government named Supreme Court Justice Emile Jonassaint, 80, as President, a move the U.S. denounced as "cynical, unconstitutional and illegal...