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...Gambia played host at a meeting in the capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
Eventually the firing stopped. After an hour of high tension, the captain ordered us taken to ECOMOG headquarters in the Free Port area of Monrovia. There, for the next day and a half, together and separately, we were politely interrogated by a team of ECOMOG military police about where we had come from and what we had seen. We slept for two nights on the floor of the M.P. headquarters, ate military rations and were given soap and buckets of water to wash with...
...where the snowpack has shrunk by half over the past 50 years. It's about the effect of Puget Sound's warmer waters on wild-salmon runs. It's about hotter summers cooking up more smog. It's about a rise in sea level that could flood Seattle's port. "The stakes are high--globally and locally," he says. "We need...
...Those sources said one of the first steps that a newly installed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would take would be to introduce legislation making college tuition more affordable for middle-class families, perhaps through tax credits and lower interest rates on student loans. Democrats would move immediately to tighten port security, seeking to have 100% of incoming container cargo inspected. A Democratic official briefed on the plans said the party would quickly push a bill designed to inhibit future lobbying scandals. The sources said Democrats would push for changes to the troubled Medicare prescription-drug plan, giving more control...
...What Churchill offers is a sea-and-land short cut for ships carrying goods along a north-south axis between Europe and the Americas. Cargo from, say, Murmansk, Russia, can be unloaded at the port and carried by rail to Canada, midwestern U.S. states or even Mexico. The port is already ice-free five months of the year, and with some judicious ice- breaking that season could be extended by a full 30 days on either end. Broe, who happens to own North America's largest privately held railway, profits from both legs of the journey. "No one has ever...