Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Five miles east of Havana is Cojimar, Ernest Hemingway's fishing village, the place where he docked his boat, the Pilar. The town's fishermen inspired The Old Man and the Sea. Last Monday night, from out of La Terraza bar, which he once patronized, a bronze head of Hemingway looked to the coast, toward five young men and the sea. They crawled silently aboard a homemade raft loaded with plastic soda bottles filled with fresh water, canned condensed milk, cheese, knives and fishing equipment. A big tarp was onboard to protect them from...
...military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former U.S. ambassador to Haiti. "And I think the surge will continue to escalate...
Warren Professor of American History Ernest R. May will teach a class on "The Cold War." The course will treat the conflict's causes and development, as well as the subsequent detente...
...President's tough posturing may have made invasion inexorable. Even though Clinton has yet to make a decision, there is a growing consensus that he has pushed matters to the point where he cannot afford to back down. "There's almost no way out," said former Ambassador to Haiti Ernest Preeg, "except military intervention...
...conduct allegedly undertaken before a Chief Executive assumes office? Bennett will assert that the logic applied by the Supreme Court in its 1982 ruling in Nixon v. Fitzgerald should apply here as well. (After telling Congress that cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane could reach $2 billion, Ernest Fitzgerald, an Air Force management analyst, was fired. President Nixon took responsibility for his dismissal, and Fitzgerald sued Nixon for damages.) In Fitzgerald, the court held that a President is absolutely and forever safe from lawsuits attacking his official acts. "Because of the singular importance of the President's duties...