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Three days after his repatriation from the detention camp at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba, a youth who identified himself only as Marcelin spoke briefly with TIME. He said that last Monday, within hours of returning to his family in Carrefour on the southern fringes of the Haitian capital, a soldier and a man in civilian clothes appeared at his door. Addressing him by name, they asked where he had been for the past two months. "Cap Haitien," Marcelin answered, referring to a city in north Haiti. "You were over there in Guantanamo, not Cap Haitien...
Stone's task this time resembles the ones he undertook in such previous novels as Dog Soldiers (1974) and A Flag for Sunrise (1981): exposing characters to dangers, external and psychological, that they may be unprepared to handle. Owen Browne, fortyish, a graduate of the Naval Academy who served four years in Vietnam, now sells pleasure boats for an outfit called Altan Marine. Ruggedly handsome -- he appears in company promotional videotapes -- Browne is also by most conventional standards a good person, dutiful, loyal and faithful to Anne, an editor, writer and his wife of 20 years. The Brownes have...
...California), they tend to welcome Japanese investment in America (jobs) even as they deplore Japanese trading practices (lost jobs). No Democratic candidate would qualify as a Japan expert, but all, aside from Tsongas, have visited the country. In fact Harkin lived in Japan for 18 months as a naval aviator during the 1960s, and Brown made pilgrimages both as Governor and, more recently, as an acolyte in a Zen retreat in Kamakura...
...York Times, officials raised the remote prospect of military intervention. Yet at the same time, the Administration was petitioning the federal courts for permission to forcibly repatriate most of the boat people, who are currently residing in tents, ships and a huge aircraft hangar at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Supreme Court gave its assent Friday night. A State Department spokesman said the government "will begin immediately repatriating Haitians...
...Naval Investigative Service (NIS) isconducting a criminal investigation at MIT todetermine whether officials defrauded thegovernment...