Word: port
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...anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution is entitled to political asylum in the U.S. Someone who is desperate to find a job and feed a family is not. Until now, Bill Clinton has avoided trying to tell them apart and simply repatriated all Haitian boat people to Port-au-Prince. His new plan to process their claims at sea and grant refuge to the deserving quieted domestic criticism but may not do the job. Here's how it would work...
...people will probably be interviewed by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, already burdened with a backlog of 400,000 refugee applications. Immigration officials in Haiti came under fire last August when one of the INS's own internal monitors publicized the ineptitude and anti- asylum bias he observed in Port-au-Prince. He was sacked but later reinstated...
...months later, German and Saudi officials detained a German-registered ship, the Asian Senator, as it steamed past a Saudi port en route to Beirut. On board, they seized two containers of Chinese-produced ammonium perchlorate, an essential ingredient for solid-fuel rockets and ballistic missiles. Though the ostensible destination was Lebanon, U.N. monitors and U.S. officials confirmed that the real end user was Iraq's long-range missile program...
...returning in the wake of a U.S. invasion, Aristide would surely be perceived as an American puppet by many Haitians. At the same time, he continues to stir antipathy at the U.S. embassy in Port-au-Prince. Earlier this month officials leaked a confidential cable that had been sent to Washington charging that Aristide and his supporters "manipulate or even fabricate human-rights abuses as a propaganda tool." The deposed President's followers called for the ouster of several U.S. embassy diplomats -- hardly auspicious for the partnership. Even if Aristide's return could be orchestrated smoothly, he would encounter...
...Joseph Hazelwood, captain of the Exxon Valdez, admitted he was less than candid with a Coast Guard investigator immediately after his ship ran aground in 1989 and spilled 11 million gal. of oil. Hazelwood testified that instead of just one beer, he had had three vodka drinks before leaving port, and that Exxon had known about his drinking problem...