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...JOSE, Costa Rica--A powerful earthquake rolled through Costa Rica yesterday, killing at least four people and toppling buildings in the Atlantic port city of Puerto Limon...
...roguery to the Mississippi River. Now Iowans are betting that it will bring tax revenues and jobs. Last week legalized floating casinos returned to the river for the first time in nearly a century. Three ships, the Diamond Lady, the President and the Casino Belle, left from separate Iowa port cities. They were loaded with slot machines, blackjack tables and roulette wheels as well as bettors who pay from $7.95 for a breakfast cruise to $40 for a weekend jaunt...
...back by security forces as demonstrators surrounded the local communist headquarters to protest the victory. Two others were shot dead as the protesters surged into the building, burning party files and the portraits of communist Albania's founding father, Enver Hoxha. Another shooting victim died later. The port city of Durres, besieged last month by Albanians seeking any vessel out of their blighted country, braced for a new exodus. While communist leader Ramiz Alia remains the head of both state and party, he could have trouble continuing the concessions that led to free elections. Party hard- liners...
...many of Albania's 3.2 million people, the elections alone offered insufficient hope of change. Less than a week before the voting, thousands gathered in the port city of Durres, drawn by fantastic rumors of waiting ships, including a ferryboat bound for Boston. Police fired automatic weapons over the heads of a stone-throwing throng trying to storm the harbor; 29 people, including 12 police, were reported injured. Earlier in March some 20,000 Albanians had scrambled aboard any boat bound for the nearest ports in Italy, and thousands more are desperate to leave...
Something as insignificant as a room-service lunch receives the detailed description usually reserved for items that actually have some importance to the story. "Pale honey slices of chicken, in an amber-coloured sauce; a salad of whitened green that gleamed; creamy-coloured cheese; the deep red of port; colours so intense and shades so subtle. I slipped softly into the world of the senses. A body that could stretch out fully to imprison, release, restrain or devour its prey, could now also eat food the way food should be eaten...