Word: portes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country of few roads, little clean water, one doctor for each 12,000 people, few jobs and trash as landscape, my pledge of 1 million gourdes (U.S.$67,000) to the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince would do more for the people than the $65 million the U.S. has used to train the thugs and thieves of Haiti's police force. RUDEL SIMON III Jamestown, New York...
SARANDE, Albania: Albania edged closer to all-out civil war as government military jets bombed a southern village and armed civilians clashed with army forces. Reports say a Chinese-made MiG-15 warplane sailed over the port of Livena and dropped up to three bombs on the town, causing an unknown amount of damage. Although the government denies its forces are attacking civilians, crew members of a military jet that defected to southern Italy on Tuesday said they had been given orders to bomb civilian targets. President Sali Barisha has launched a major security operation to quell the unrest, which...
...piety. Only later, in France, did Deng Xiansheng become Deng Xiaoping, the two new syllables a prescient nom de guerre, literally meaning "little peace," an augury of both tumult and relief. In 1920, at the age of 16, Deng left his rural home deep inland in Sichuan for the port of Shanghai. There he learned basic French and won a scholarship for a work-study program in France. "We felt that China was weak, and we wanted her to be strong," he later said of his generation of students. "So we went to the West to learn...
Crandall is the kind of blunt corporate instrument who is used to this sort of stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...
...Bill Cosby been dealt such a terrible blow? How would his TV character Cliff Huxtable explain it all to us?" IRA M. CUTLER Port Chester, New York...