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Uniformed soldiers tried to keep order as long lines snaked through the mustard-and-brown terminal. Tempers flared when priority passengers (including families of military officers) pushed to the front, while others found that their seats had been sold. The chaos at Port-au-Prince's airport reflected the rising tensions in Haiti, as the last flights left the country before a U.S.-imposed ban ban on commercial air travel went into effect at midnight...
According to a recently-released Massachusetts Port Authority statement, the Logan of the future will future terminal upgrades, improved ground access and a new fuel distribution system...
...strategy is the credible threat of military intervention. No one knows whether Clinton will follow through with an invasion, but the steady drip of leaks has created an atmosphere of frantic speculation that, combined with a dearth of hard facts, makes for effective psychological war. Amid all the uncertainty, Port-au-Prince is swept by sensational rumors, such as last week's report that the U.S. embassy had been passing out iridescent paint so that Americans could identify their homes to invading troops...
...invasion panic. Jonassaint's state of emergency was roundly dismissed as a national joke when the military failed even to declare a curfew. Derision turned to surprise when, in a city where nothing works, pothole-repair crews and street cleaners suddenly made an appearance along several main streets in Port-au-Prince -- presumably to demonstrate, however peripherally, that the government is capable of doing something...
Northern forces shelled southern Yemen's former capital, Aden, reportedly killing at least 60 people, mostly civilians, and injuring more than 170. Amid warnings of new attacks by the northern brigades as they continued to advance toward the city limits, 900 foreigners fled the besieged port by ferry for Djibouti, in the biggest evacuation from Aden since the civil war began...