Word: portes
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Four Cantabrigians are part of a Boston-area delegation which traveled to Port-au-Prince to express solidarity with the Haitian public and democratically-elected officials...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "Port of Shadows" at 5:30 p.m.The action takes place mainly in an undergroundbistro. Jean Gabin plays a deserter from theColonial Army who falls in love with a youngorphan girl...
...Clinton's policy work in a more fundamental sense? Just maybe. Aidid's power is concentrated in southern Mogadishu (though that gives him a grip on the airport and the port area through which supplies for the rest of the country must move). In the countryside the U.N. has managed to organize three dozen councils of elders and other community representatives, and there are many reports of food moving to hungry people, of crops being planted and growing once again. It might be possible -- barely -- to promote a settlement among the councils and clan leaders that would include Aidid without...
...PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haitians are openly skeptical about the ability of U.N. forces to deal with the ruthless gunmen who oppose the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, which is scheduled for Oct. 30. As 26 Americans and five Canadians, the first of 1,600 U.N. troops and police, arrived in the capital, Haitian hard-liners, led by the police chief, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Michel Francois, have launched a campaign to sabotage the international effort. More than 100 Aristide supporters have been killed by thugs since July 3. Said one Haitian: "Those blue berets look like powder puffs...
Meanwhile, the city's bustling port is at 100% capacity and in need of expansion. Expanding the port would bring tremendous new business to the city; in addition to construction jobs, the port expansion would create hundreds of fulltime jobs for longshoreman, who's pay starts at $19 an hour. Yet these high paying jobs will have to wait, since the stadium drive has monopolized all infrastructure resources...