Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti--After two nights of wild rejoicing and mob retaliation against the hated secret police of the ousted Duvalier regime, life began returning to normal yesterday in this slum-ridden city of one million people...
After a number of disturbing claims by Haitians claiming to be zombies, the Centre de Psychiatrie et Neurologie in Port au Prince, Haiti had requested help from ethnobiologists in the United States...
Ricardo Pagusara, 24, a college dropout in the southern Philippine port , city of Cebu, puts the country's immediate dilemma more simply. Says he: "Respect for the present government is fast disappearing. People have become so desperate that they are willing to gamble with a new, untried person." Says Enrique Zobel, a prominent pro-Marcos businessman: "The people simply want a change...
...visit there next month, but was quickly recruited for the rescue operation. Other British naval vessels, including the frigate Jupiter, were not allowed by the South Yemenis to sail within the twelve-mile territorial limit, but the Britannia, as a hospital ship, was permitted to enter the port of Aden. Britons and non-Britons alike were stirred when the Queen's yacht, its Royal Marine band playing Land of Hope and Glory and Rule Britannia, reached Djibouti with the first load of 350 evacuees of 42 nationalities, including mainland Chinese. In the course of the week, the Britannia evacuated...
Rioting in Port-au-Prince appeared to be quelled by midday. The streets filled with police, troops in battle gear and the Volunteers for National Security militia...