Word: port
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hani's murder comes at a delicate moment in South Africa's ever painful attempt to remake itself into a multiracial democracy. In a Zulu village near Port Shepstone in southern Natal province, 10 young A.N.C. members were slaughtered last week in a savage hand-grenade, shotgun and machete attack, despite a peace pact between A.N.C. and Inkatha Freedom Party representatives just a week before. Elsewhere, police and military forces were on alert for possible Easter-weekend attacks on whites by the Azanian People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the black-power group the Pan-Africanist Congress. Political...
Jamaica adopted the British parliamentary system upon its independence, but the country remains unstable, chafing under the weight of its depressed economy. We first entered Port Antonio in the midst of a political rally; the opposing candidate for prime minister stood with a microphone in the center square, shouting a stream of political slogans above the din of reggae music. A throng of people cheered restlessly. A few days later, the incumbent party won in a landslide...
Several days later, when the post-election riots in Kingston, the capital, had subsided and the death count had been tallied, a few military officers ambled through the Port Antomo streets. On election day, of course, we hadn't left the safe seclusion of our house. We had played croquet...
...visited Port Antonio again to dance in a tourist filled nightclub, to purchase more sun block, to venture from the harbor in a yacht. We also reentered the marketplace to buy gifts for friends and family back home. Leaving the country, we came across a copy of a Jamaican paper. The Sunday Gleaner. Its top story was a glowing account of the prime minister's inauguration. His win, the article said, represented an overwhelming mandate to improve the nation's economic status...
...folded the newspaper and put it in a basket, purchased from the Port Antonio marketplace. Also in the basket was a broken croquet ball. After hitting the final stake in one game, a player tried to knock the ball clear across the field, where another player grappled with a difficult wicket. The thrill of victory surpassing, just for a moment, his vacation sluggishness, he whacked the ball so hard it split...