Word: forte
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Philip Naff Fort Sheridan...
...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 fleeing the crackdown showed up in New York Harbour, they would not be shipped off to Krone or Fort Allen [two Haitian detention campa...
...after a 14-year reign of server by Duvalier's father (Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier), the dictatorship passed without elections to a 19-year-old "Baby Doc." U.S. military ships in Fort-as-Prince Bay helped ensure a smooth transition. Today, U.S. ships still patrol Haitian waters, and Reagan plans to increase aid to Duvalier from $30 million to $50 million this year. The aid package includes helicopters and other weapons which end up in the hands of the tontons-macoutes...
John R. Lakian now wants to join their ranks. Just two months ago, his claim to fame was simply being president of Fort Hill Company, a Westwood investment firm. Today, he is the leading candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in Massachusetts. Never involved in "public service" he has, in his quest so far, embarrassed men whose years in the business should have afforded them a much greater advantage...
Their buckaroo journalism is better at exposing a corrupt county commissioner than at exploring the consequences of a commission's zoning plans. Only belatedly have the papers seen the ecological risks of overdevelopment, and the failing has been greatest in such boom towns as Orlando and Fort Myers. Further, the all-out coverage after eruptions like the Miami riots does not make up for a lack of reporting about tensions as they build...