Word: port
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...VectraCavalier, meanwhile, was the result of a vastly different reorganization. GM Europe entered the 1980s as a patchwork of competing and often uncooperative concerns stretching from the company's new small-car plant near Zaragoza, Spain, to its aging Vauxhall factories in Luton and Ellesmere Port, England. Before the reorganization, GM Europe was very much a West German-led company. The first goal of the restructuring was to broaden its character, so in 1986 the company moved its headquarters to neutral Zurich. There an amazingly lean head-office staff proceeded to coax the diverse GM Europe factions into cooperating with...
...Washington, Francois Benoit, Haiti's Ambassador to the U.S., resigned in protest. In Port-au-Prince, Alvin P. Adams, the U.S. Ambassador, visited Avril to express "outrage," terming Avril's actions "indefensible." French President Francois Mitterrand was reported to have telephoned a tough rebuke to Avril, and later Paris announced that it was suspending aid to Haiti because of the crackdown. The U.S. and the World Bank may reassess plans for financial aid to the country...
...Port-au-Prince, meanwhile, was stretched tight with tension last week. During one rumor-filled afternoon, the entire city closed down. Some Haitians wondered whether Avril was trying to pre-empt a revolution in the Palace Guard. Others were certain that Avril never intended to relinquish the presidency in the first place, and was consolidating his power for a long rule. But Avril's grip over his country is not as strong as that of Haiti's greatest dictator, Papa Doc Duvalier, and by week's end the President, showing signs of succumbing to diplomatic and internal pressure, renewed...
...Captains of more than 50 merchant ships from Caspian Sea oil refineries blockaded Baku harbor, threatening to blow up tankers and drilling platforms unless they were allowed to inspect ships leaving port. Rumor had it that Soviet troops had killed thousands and were dumping the corpses at sea. Army artillery barrages broke up the blockade, and troops boarded several of the ships. Lieut. General Mikhail Kolesnikov reported that one soldier was killed and two were wounded in the operation...
...most recent round of fighting began in February 1988, when ethnic hatreds erupted in the port town of Sumgait, north of Baku, resulting in an official death count of 32, most of them Armenians. Over the next two years, more than 220,000 Armenians fled Azerbaijan. Those who remained behind in the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh have lived under a virtual state of siege, relying on supplies airlifted from Armenia. Last month the Supreme Soviet voted to return administrative control over the region to the Azerbaijanis. Enraged, the Armenian parliament voted two weeks ago to include Nagorno-Karabakh...