Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians pardoned a British sailor named George Robinson, who was jailed last September for drunkenly assaulting a Soviet official in the port of Archangel; they let him go in Berlin...
Once every year the Fellata quarter of Port Sudan, on the west coast of the Red Sea, fills up with Arab pilgrims. Their objective: to reach the Holy Land before the start of Ramadan (May 15, this year), and to visit Mecca. They come from all parts of Africa, crossing from one country to another without trouble-until they hit Port Sudan...
Less than 200 miles of water separates Port Sudan from the Saudi Arabian port of Jidda, which is a 50-mile walk from Mecca. But before the pilgrim may have his passport stamped to cross the Red Sea, he must get through a slough of red tape: pay the British authorities pilgrim fees (later remitted to Saudi Arabia); submit to medical examination; have his arm stabbed with sharp needles against epidemic diseases; pay for his return passage...
...Judas figure varies throughout the Black Republic, according to local artistry and whimsy. In Colonie des Vacances. a prosperous village of whitewashed mud and thatch huts outside Port-au-Prince's fashionable suburb of Pétionville, he is usually a raffish, cotton-stuffed fellow in sport jacket with a pink boutonniere, a big cigar and harlequin glasses; in remote Basse Guinaudée (pop. 300) on the southern peninsula, he is a rustic with a ragged face and sisal beard...
This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and even priests admitted that they saw no harm in the Judas hunt. "We take a neutral view, neither encouraging nor discouraging it," explained one. "It is part of the people's need for release...