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Without specifically mentioning the U.S. decision to send a naval flotilla to the coast of Nicaragua and some 5,000 troops to participate in military exercises in Honduras, De la Madrid warned the U.S. that regional stability might be endangered "by shows of force that threaten to touch off a conflagration." Reagan, who was dressed in a blue guayabera, reaffirmed the tough U.S. policy in Central America. "We believe people should be able to determine their own solutions," he declared, "and that's why we've responded to calls for help from certain of our Latin American neighbors...
...includes 14 buildings in a medley of styles, all exuberantly restored. By next summer "Pier 17 Pavilion" will be installed. The Victorian-style steel-and-glass shopping arcade will jut into the East River alongside the four-masted sailing ship Peking and other craft in the museum's flotilla. Also to come are more outdoor cafés, commercial offices and an apartment house...
When Commodore Matthew Perry entered Edo Bay aboard the steam frigate Susquehanna just 130 years ago this summer, most of the awestruck Japanese had never before seen such a vessel, much less a whole flotilla of what they called "the black ships of evil mien...
Crew officials at UNH told reporters yesterday that the weather there was sunny and calm when a small flotilla of eight racing shells carrying 68 students, accompanied by coaches in three powered launches set out down the Oyster River which leads to the Bay. The squall that swamped the boats, the officials said came suddenly and without warning Officers at the Coast Guard station in Portsmouth, N.H. said, however, that gale warnings had been in effect earlier in the day and small craft were advised not to be on the water when the accident occurred...
...States in droves. Some 44,000 refugees were officially known to have arrived between 1972 (the year alter Duvalier took office) and 1981. The true number is almost certainly much higher. It was only in 1980, when 125,000 Cubans set out for the United States in the "Freedom Flotilla," that Haitians began to be refused entry to America in large numbers. Observers attribute the change in policy to an American fear triggered by the sight of thousands of Black Cubans and Black Haitians at the borders. As Newsweek put it, "The suspicion lingers that if 15,000 white Poles...