Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rulers of Haiti terms for lifting sanctions. Among the demands are the retirement of army commander Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, an end to human-rights abuses and the disarming of the "attaches," a ganglike auxiliary police force that has terrorized citizens. At week's end a U.S. Coast Guard cutter fired warning shots at a merchant ship that refused to change course...
...Clinton Administration argues that as a rule, Haitian boat people are fleeing poverty, not political persecution. When he debarked from Dieu Veut, Jonas Esterlin, 22, found it hard to feel that way. Spotted by police as soon as the Coast Guard cutter tied up, he was ordered to a separate area on the docks. There, he says, he was pistol-whipped in the head and jabbed with an electric cattle prod. "The police kept yelling that we had fled to show support for Aristide," Esterlin recalls, "and that we should all be killed." Terrified, he broke and ran. Police were...
...College this year, the continuing conundrum of race relations was squeezed into the cookie-cutter of a swelling bureaucracy--and it didn't quite fit the mold...
...attention that might be paid to "dykes on bikes," bearded transvestites, men dressed as nuns and other proponents of life as street theater. Civil rights arguments are easier to sell when they come from people who seek to fit in. Says Mixner: "Our goal is not to become cookie-cutter images of what's acceptable. But 98% of the marchers are people America will recognize as their sons and daughters...
Customers embarking on the quest for a compatible commercial cutter need not worry, for the multitude of local shops are out to establish long-term relationships...