Word: port
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After two weeks, the deadly pneumonic plague has spread from the port city of Surat to New Delhi and five other states, including West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. But officials claimed they had the epidemic under control. At week's end the death toll topped...
...irritation with his benefactors on full display even before all U.S. troops had gone ashore. For three full days after the Carter agreement, he uttered not a word of thanks to America for the 20,000 troops on whose backs he will ride to the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince...
When Evans Paul, the youthful mayor of Port-au-Prince who has been in hiding from the Haitian junta for the past three years, emerged to reclaim his office last Thursday, he brought along a kind of personal insurance policy: 40 American MPs and soldiers from the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division. Under their watchful gaze, the man who is second in popularity to President Jean- Bertrand Aristide was able to deliver an emotional speech celebrating the end of military rule and admonishing his fellow Haitians to exercise patience, mercy and restraint. His only rhetorical barb was reserved...
...ugly snapshots from Port-au-Prince did not convey the full picture of the occupation. Despite chaos in the streets, U.S. troops secured one objective after another with clocklike precision. On Monday, as Clinton announced he was lifting the bulk of the U.S. economic sanctions, American MPs moved into five of the capital's most notorious police precincts. That same day, the Coast Guard returned the first installment of what is hoped will be a reverse wave of returning refugees. Then on Tuesday, U.S. forces secured Haiti's simple white parliament building, reopening it to its democratically elected legislators...
...disorder in Port-au-Prince underscored the need for some serious policing of the streets where local forces have been told to hang back. On Thursday former New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly took charge of the 1,000-strong international monitoring force in Puerto Rico, which the U.S. is sending to Haiti to restrain and retrain local authorities: 300 monitors were to arrive by the weekend. But it will be months before the new Haitian police can be counted on to enforce civic order fairly. In the meantime, the U.S. wants to make clear that it will...