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...hundreds, Haitian boat people in search of asylum in the U.S. were delivered by Coast Guard cutters back to Port-au-Prince. Each was fingerprinted and photographed by local immigration officers. Just routine procedure, police assured scores of foreign journalists. But the swiftness with which the returnees melted into the population suggested that these Haitians were more than a little skeptical -- perhaps with good cause...
While awaiting the court's ruling, the State Department unveiled a new policy: Haitians will now be permitted to apply for asylum at the U.S. embassy in the capital city of Port-au-Prince. Unless the rules are eased, the program will be restricted to just 300 Haitians over the next eight months, and it will confine admission to former political prisoners and applicants who are in "imminent danger" of persecution...
...past several years, the city has razed more than 1,200 abandoned homes, nearly 5% of its housing stock. On the worst blocks, two-thirds of the buildings have collapsed or burned. "I think of Camden basically as a doughnut," says Joe Balzano, CEO of the South Jersey Port Corp. "Everything worthwhile is on the edges, and the center is hollow...
...warships. Russian President Boris Yeltsin argued for central control over all this too, but Ukraine, Moldavia and Azerbaijan insisted that they had to have their own national armies. Most Soviet naval bases were in Russia, but Ukraine was quick to claim the Black Sea Fleet, which had its home port in Ukraine's Sevastopol. Without warning, Russia ordered the newest aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, to its port of Murmansk. Yeltsin later defended the transfer, noting that the Black Sea Fleet was "historically Russian." But he grudgingly conceded that Ukraine is entitled to "a share" of the Black Sea Fleet...
...antiabortion organization of the same name). For much of the 1980s, Bailey's chief project was raising funds to support the Akuna, a freighter that he said patrolled the South China Sea rescuing Vietnamese refugees. By most accounts, the ship was unseaworthy and spent 90% of its time in port...