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...inauguration, Clinton shattered the hopes he had so carefully (and so intentionally) cultivated, declaring that the Bush policy would continue temporarily, and sending a flotilla of Coast Guard and Navy ships to enforce it. Since then, the ships have maintained what Amnesty International representatives call a Caribbean Curtain, "effectively transforming Haiti into an island prison...
...their peak in the late 1980s, Soviet forces, if they did not actually dominate the world, were certainly capable of destroying it. Moscow boasted an army of more than 4 million soldiers, an air force with thousands of planes, four surface fleets and the world's largest flotilla of submarines. Most formidable of all were its 1,400 land-based intercontinental missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. While most of the world regarded this arsenal with dread, Soviet citizens proudly viewed it as a symbol of national greatness...
MacArthur decided to leave by submarine at sundown on March 11. No sub could get through to Corregidor, so he used a flotilla of four dilapidated PT boats. With him he took his wife and son and the Chinese nurse and a dozen staff officers. To Major General Jonathan Wainwright, he made a promise: "I'm leaving over my repeated protests. If I get through to Australia, you know I'll come back as soon as I can with as much as I can. In the meantime you've got to hold...
...humid, breezeless day, and flags hung limply on their staffs. Precisely at 2 p.m., the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, bearing an entourage headed by the Prince of Wales as surrogate for his frail, ailing mother, cast off from Portsmouth quay and steamed toward the flotilla. It was an awesome sight: 165 British ships of the line, plus vessels from 14 other nations including the U.S. and Japan. At a signal, seamen scurried to attention on decks and yardarms, and the warships boomed out cannon salutes as the yacht passed by. For three hours that evening, in a dazzling display...
...panic intensified last week when Liberian troops invaded a United Nations compound in Monrovia where hundreds of Gio and Mano refugees were seeking protection. One security guard was killed, and as many as 40 refugees were abducted. In response, the U.S. dispatched a six-ship Navy flotilla to stand off the coast to evacuate American citizens if necessary...