Word: port
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...Monday morning like any other at the pastoral Port Howard Farm on West Falkland Island. Several shepherds roam the 200,000-acre spread in Land Rovers and on motorbikes, tending the 45,000 woolly residents. In the main house, farm owner Robin Lee, 42, checks over farm accounts and sips a final cup of tea before making the weekly commute to his desk job in the capital city of Port Stanley. When the call comes signaling that his ride is en route, Lee drives the short stretch to a grassy landing strip, arriving in time to make sure...
...Moscow might degenerate into a violent conflict, the West has been pressuring both sides to come to terms peacefully. Russian President Boris Yeltsin recently took a step in that direction, announcing that Moscow had dropped its insistence that the 380-ship Black Sea Fleet, based in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, was a "strategic force" that should fall under joint Commonwealth command...
...President has insisted all along that many of the Haitian refugees are fleeing economic conditions, not political oppression, yet he has labeled the military dictatorship in power there an "illegal regime," and has imposed an embargo on any ship that has docked in Haiti. Political violence is increasing in Port-au-Prince. The Administration, acknowledging that Haitians seen making proper requests for asylum at the embassy may be in danger, announced that it will send officials out into the countryside to take applications. A partial list of those condemning U.S. refugee policy: the Anti-Defamation League, the N.A.A.C.P...
Aristide, who is in the U.S. to win backing for his return, hopes to address the United Nations this week even as military leaders on the island are trying to push through a new government formula excluding him from power. At least four people died last week in Port-au-Prince during a one-day general strike supporting his return...
...industries cannot live without a stiff fix from Washington. U.S. shipyards enjoy the protection of a 50% tax imposed on nonemergency repairs of U.S.-owned ships in foreign yards. Another boost to maritime interests is a law that prohibits foreign- built vessels from carrying goods from one American port to another. In Geneva, U.S. negotiators say they want to exempt shipping altogether from the new GATT regime. Extensive textile quotas, which the Uruguay Round proposes to bring under GATT for the first time, raise the bills of every American family almost $500 a year, according to a 1987 study...