Word: port
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...Ukraine have been arguing for more than a year over what to do about the powerful 350-ship Black Sea fleet of the former Soviet navy. Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Ukraine President Leonid Kravchuk reached a solution: they will split the fleet down the middle. The fleet's port in Sevastopol, Ukraine, will be shared as well. Russia also agreed officially to guarantee Ukraine's security, a condition Kravchuk has insisted on before giving up his 1,900-warhead nuclear arsenal...
...Does it make sense," demanded Virginia Congressman Owen Pickett, "to close the only naval shipyard in a region that is the home port to 149 Navy ships, including five aircraft carriers?" In spite of the force of the argument, one member of the presidential commission said later, "If Norfolk or Portsmouth thinks we're not serious, they are kidding themselves." Courter, the commission chairman, told a press conference in Norfolk, "We're not here to terrorize the communities," but he added, "This is a very serious exercise...
...world order," he says. "The Croats and the Muslims are the tools of a new German expansion and they can be sacrificed." He is not alone in this conviction. "This is a war against Germany and the Pope," insists another fighter. "Germany wants a warmwater Adriatic port." Never mind that this makes no logical sense. Though many who express this view are not old enough to remember World War II, the recounted horrors of Croat and German atrocities against Serbs have been kept as alive as yesterday. However implausible, many Serbs believe without doubt they are finally getting their chance...
...command did everything it could to protect American soldiers at the expense of an effective peacemaking mission. The Marines refused to take on the task of forcible disarmament on any large scale, even with their superior firepower. U.S. soldiers did not intervene in the worst fighting in the port city of Kismayu in February, opting instead for a "show of force" that accomplished nothing. Marines avoided forays beyond the town of Bardera because it would have placed them at risk from land mines and marauding gunmen...
...gesture came amid a flurry of other diplomatic activity. The Clinton Administration let it be known that the U.S. might send a contingent of military advisers to help rebuild the impoverished nation following Aristide's return. The United Nations' special envoy for Haitian affairs, Argentine Dante Caputo, arrived in Port-au-Prince to serve as a mediator in the expected negotiations. But army commanders declined to meet with him, flatly rejecting the amnesty offer...