Word: port
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According to the U.S. fishermen, two of their boats operating 14 miles from the coast were stopped by an Ecuadorean patrol boat and ordered to put into the port of Manta for licenses. When they refused, the other 19 surrounded the patrol boat. The Ecuadoreans sent an emergency call for a destroyer; shots were fired across two tuna boats' bows, and the Yankee skippers agreed to go along under force of arms. The way Ecuador's government tells it, the U.S. tuna men were fishing within three miles of the coast. No shots were fired, and the Yankee...
...spite of all his barbarities, Duvalier has achieved considerable popularity among the peasantry and the lower classes of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, because of his ardent Negro nationalism. He has called for the elimination of Haiti's economic and cultural dependence on the United States and for the establishment of a bond between Haiti and Africa. Recently, his tone has become more strident: he calls for an immediate social revolution in which the Negro population would take over and oust the mulatto economic elite and American business interests...
...diplomatic port of call. Lisbon is hardly on the grand circuit. It provides such minor challenges as working for steady trade in wine, sardines and cork. There are also the knotty problems of negotiating the renewal of a treaty for continued use of U.S. military bases in the Azores*and of smoothing out relations ruffled by U.S. support of U.N. anticolonial resolutions involving the Portuguese colony of Angola. To make way for Anderson, the present ambassador, C. Burke Elbrick, 55, a career diplomat who has held the Lisbon post since 1958, will be reassigned...
...Duvalier or Death," read the crudely lettered placards, and 20,000 bewildered peasants herded into Port au Prince obediently tootled bamboo horns, honked on conch shells, and flew kites with painted pictures of "The Renovator." Having brought a crowd to cheer, the dictator who masquerades as Haiti's constitutionally elected President, showed himself in public again and again last week, telling his Negro people that Haiti's problems are economic, not political, and that he has no quarrel with "Monsieur Kennedy, who believes that our continent should be a community of free and independent states." Yet everywhere...
...Duvalier persisted into his unconstitutional second term, Venezuela and Costa Rica broke diplomatic relations. The U.S., in an odd neither-this-nor-that diplomatic maneuver, "suspended contacts" with Haiti. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston was ordered to remain in Port-au-Prince, but to have absolutely no conversation with Duvalier's government. Along with about 200 other U.S. dependents, Ambassador Thurston's wife was sent home. Duvalier was still in power, but his security remained precarious. Ready to move in if things got out of hand, a U.S. task force, headed by the helicopter carrier Boxer with a reinforced...