Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graceful, two-masted vessel, just back from a 15-month European tour, had anchored briefly at the U.S. Virgin Island port of St. John, and was sailing north toward Baltimore on May 14 when the weather turned nasty. The twelve crew members shortened sail to handle the heavy winds. Suddenly, recalled First Mate John Flanagan, "a wall of wind and water" smashed into the Pride with devastating force. "In what seemed like slow motion the boat laid over to port," said Flanagan. There was no time to sound an alarm over the Pride's radio...
Despite the sweltering heat, curious crowds of reporters packed the pink courtroom in Port-au-Prince day after day. Armed soldiers in steel helmets surrounded the defendant, who sat erect, dressed in a business suit, seemingly impervious to both the temperature and the allegations against him. Retired Army Colonel Samuel Jeremie, 52, who was once a close aide to former President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, had been charged with two counts of murder, each punishable by ten years in prison. He was also accused of military misconduct, a crime under Haitian law that could lead...
...punch-bowl set, which has been on display at the state capital in Jefferson City. Finally, with the U.S. Attorney in Kansas City acting as mediator, the Navy and the state compromised: when the Missouri is at sea, all the silver is hers. But when she is in home port, the Navy will make the punch bowl available to the state. Grog all around, mates...
...council is also acting to bring several Duvalier henchmen to justice. They include Suspected Murderer Frank Roumain, a former mayor of Port-au- Prince, and Luc Desyr, who served as chief of the Duvaliers' secret police. Desyr is believed to have tortured a former leader of the Haitian legislature...
Suddenly, buses, trucks and taxis were scarce in Johannesburg. The service at restaurants and on the supermarket lines in Pretoria was painfully slow. And the factories around Port Elizabeth were strangely silent. The reason: millions of black South African drivers, waiters, supermarket cashiers, office clerks and industrial workers had taken the day off, producing the largest antiapartheid protest in the country's history...