Word: port
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...direction, and we want these to be the central topics of discussion and action by our generation." Bill Strauss, 46, co-author of the book 13th Gen: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail? and one of the few participants in the group over 40, compares the declaration with the anti- Establishment Port Huron Statement issued by Tom Hayden and Students for a Democratic Society in 1962. Says Strauss: "I am optimistic that when we look back at the history of the '90s and the youth movement, this will be an important document...
...before, the boat was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, and the refugees passed the next two months in detention at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Only 25 of the refugees were allowed to apply for political asylum. The rest were shipped back to the docks at Port- au-Prince, given the equivalent of $15 and told to go home, where many were greeted by a rogue police force that reserves special violence for people who are returned against their will...
...function, and the only government offices still working are the tax collector and the local police post, which boasts a .50-cal. machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead...
...even more chilling reception awaited Obrin Ossou, a political activist who had spent weeks hiding in mangrove swamps along the coast before finally landing a berth on the Dieu Veut. According to his brother Miguel, Ossou was pulled from the line of refugees as he disembarked in Port-au-Prince. He has not been heard from since. For the past year, Miguel has paid radio stations to broadcast appeals for anyone who might know what happened to his brother. "I believe he is dead," he confesses. Local villagers are more certain of Ossou's fate. "He was beaten to death...
...envoy to New Delhi to get him out of the country. In 1991 he finally joined in the overthrow of Siad Barre. Soon, though, he fell out with another leader of the congress, Ali Mahdi Mohammed: in a three-month period the two men shelled the once beautiful port city of Mogadishu into a crumbling ruin. His estranged wife and children left the country years ago. But one son returned -- as a U.S. Marine, wading ashore last December to liberate Somalia from the likes of his father...