Word: ported
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enough when Jean Bernard Charles was shoved to the ground in handcuffs four months ago in Port-au-Prince and shot to death by four Haitian police officers for no apparent reason. But then his family complained that Haiti's U.S.-trained police should not be in the business of murdering civilians. This, they quickly discovered, was a mistake. First came the warnings: if the relatives didn't shut up, they might suffer the same fate. Then came the threats: one afternoon a few officers caught up with Charles' cousin and said he was going to be arrested. When...
TAMMY DRUMMOND, our Miami bureau chief, knows firsthand about the problems of the police in Haiti. When a gang of thieves surrounded her rented car in Port-au-Prince last year and stole a suitcase and a computer, she was immediately hauled into a police station by the cops and and accused of running over one of the robbers. "They eventually let me go," says Drummond, "but it was with much apprehension that I returned to report on the police for this week's issue." What she discovered is chilling. "Given the inadequate training and lack of resources," she says...
...over it again. Owen had tried to avoid an outright award of the town to the Serbs or the Muslim-Croat federation, which surely would reignite the fighting. One option he has considered would be dividing the city into three equal parts, with an international governor administering a free port, the Muslim-Croat federation taking the western half of the city and the Serbs taking the east. Before the Serbs seized Brcko at the start of the 3 1/2-year war, 68 percent of the population was Muslim and Croat. To them, allowing Serb control would in essence be a reward...
...memories are not eroded by the years--they just burn brighter in the mind of Peter Cecil Jones, who saw Steve Biko led to his death. He remembers the summer night in August 1977 and the roadblock on the highway in the eastern Cape, 80 miles from Port Elizabeth. He hears his friend's calm reply to the police officer's question, "Who are you, big man?": "I am Steven Bantu Biko." He recalls the long, fearful hours in a holding cell, where he and Biko destroyed a secret document by eating it. He remembers the handcuffs and leg-irons...
...education association. According to environmentalists, however, that is the only way to protect the land. Coal mining requires not just mines but also related aboveground structures, such as office buildings and parking lots. In addition, coal mined at the Grand Staircase would have to be hauled to the nearest port--in this case Los Angeles--in as many as 400 truckloads a day over highways that in some cases do not yet exist. Building such a modern-day Silk Road might cost up to $100 million...