Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--Mobs rioted, buildings were burned and Jean-Claude Duvalier, president-for-life, imposed a state of siege yesterday and told the people of his impoverished land that he was in control, "firm as a monkey's tail...
Rioters ran through downtown Port-au-Prince in the morning, building street barricades. Police used clubs and opened fire on them...
...witness said police drove people off the streets with clubs and tear gas in Cap Haitien, a north-coast port that has been a focus of growing protest against the Duvalier dynasty on this Caribbean island...
After leaving their encampment at the Red Sea port of Sharm el Sheikh, the high-spirited Americans, dressed for the most part in blue jeans and tennis shoes, spent a day at Cairo's luxurious Hyatt El Salam Hotel. Many soldiers stopped in the Hyatt's Bazaar Shop to buy such Christmas gifts as papyrus, Arabic phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal...
...ship also left a wake of legal problems. Italy's Supreme Court settled a quarrel over whether Genoa or Syracuse would have the authority to / continue the investigation of the hijacking and bring the terrorists to trial. Genoa won on the ground that the ship had sailed from its port...