Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Outside the National Palace in Port-au-Prince last week, bands beat out the latest popular rhythm: Papa Doc Forever. Crowds of peasants and workers stood dutifully in the blazing sun as little Haiti's Dictator Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier, 54, smiled benignly, then allowed that "forever" was just about what he had in mind. Bowing to overwhelming popular demand, he said, he had consented to rule tiny Haiti as President for life...
...reception was pointedly restrained, but the dapper, dusky VIP who debarked at the Amsterdam air port last week could hardly expect brass bands. Dr. Subandrio, Indonesia's Foreign Minister and Deputy Premier, was the highest-ranking official from Djakarta to set foot in The Netherlands since the Dutch bitterly granted his rebellious nation independence 15 years ago. His aim in "normalizing ties" has been increasingly evident for months...
...Crimson's hitting was just as unspectacular the next afternoon, but del Rossi turned in a brilliant, two-hit job that handcuffed Richmond, 2-0. The junior port-sider fanned fifteen, walked none, and yielded only two singles...
...raise the needed capital, Groves set up the Grand Bahama Port Authority, Ltd.; he sold one 25% interest to a London holding company headed by British Hardware Tycoon Charles Hayward, another 25% to a New York group led by Investment Banker Charles Allen. To build the hotel and supply the other resort and residential amenities, the Port Authority organized the Grand Bahama Development Co., Ltd. with Canadian Entrepreneur Louis Chesler. The Port Authority put up $2,000,000 and 100,000 acres, Chesler $23 million. Today the $100 million pleasure isle is slowly taking shape...
With one sweeping decree on Aug. 6, 1960, Fidel Castro expropriated Cuban enterprises that were wholly or largely owned by U.S. citizens. On that very day, in the port of Santa Maria, a ship was being loaded with sugar that had been produced by one of the expropriated companies, Compania Azucarera de Vertientes-Camaguey de Cuba, otherwise known as C.A.V. That white cargo set off on a four-year cruise through the U.S. courts...