Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took several years to negotiate, would have permitted up to 20,000 Cubans to leave for the U.S. each year. Cuba had also agreed to take back 2,746 criminals and mentally ill people who came to the U.S. during the mass exodus of 125,000 Cubans from the port of Mariel in 1980; a mere 201 such "excludables" had been returned before last week. In addition, the agreement was to allow some 3,000 of Cuba's political prisoners to emigrate to the U.S. One hour after Castro's suspension was announced, the first, and perhaps the last, group...
...diplomatic snub. Had Lange, who also holds the Foreign Affairs portfolio, chosen to attend, he might have met there with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz to discuss U.S.-New Zealand differences. The relationship between the two longtime allies soured after Lange and his ruling Labor Party banned port calls by nuclear-powered or -armed U.S. Navy ships. In retaliation, the U.S. has discontinued military cooperation with New Zealand. Said Jim McLay, leader of the opposition National Party: "This loss of an opportunity for meeting with Shultz is a tragedy...
Lange has delayed submitting to Parliament legislation to formalize the port ruling. In a recent magazine article he conceded that he must accommodate the feelings of insecurity "awakened by the attenuation of the defense relationship with...
...since the Communist takeover in 1949 have U.S. Navy warships been permitted to enter Chinese waters. So when Peking last August agreed that American vessels could pay a port call, Washington laid plans to send three ships to Shanghai this spring. But last month the proposed visit hit an unexpected mine. Hu Yaobang, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, announced that only "conventional" American ships would be welcome. Since the U.S. refuses as a matter of policy to state which of its vessels carry nuclear weapons, the two countries were at a diplomatic impasse. Last week Peking and Washington...
...digest another, more jarring piece of news: a sweeping crackdown on a national pastime -- drinking. The decree raises the drinking age from 18 to 21, delays the daily opening of liquor stores by three hours, calls for a gradual cut in vodka production and an eventual ban on port, which the Soviets consume in huge quantities. The measure also prescribes harsh penalties for drunken driving, drinking in public, serving alcohol to minors and brewing moonshine...