Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese song-and-dance team in Moscow was fine onstage, said Sovietskaya Kultura, but was positively offensive on a visit to the Lenin Museum: they giggled, yawned and spat. » Red Chinese crowds in the Manchurian port city of Dairen stoned and spat on Soviet sailors, Izvestia angrily reported. City officials even posted signs outside parks and nightspots: "Entrance forbidden to foreigners...
...court-martial; they flogged and tortured 1,000 others, many of them women and children. The British met no real resistance, did not lose a single man. "Hole is doing a splendid service shooting every black man who cannot account for himself," one officer gaily wrote. "Nelson at Port Antonio hanging like fun by court-martial. I hope you will not send any black prisoners. Do punish the blackguards well...
...ruling agrarian Haiti is not an easy job. The nation's only communications system, for instance, is a haphazard affair controlled entirely by the army. Daily, the country's capital, Port-au-Prince, goes without electricity for three aggravating and unpredictable hourly periods because not enough power can be generated to supply the city's rather unspectacular needs...
...developed a private hatchet force called the tonton macoute. Part vigilante, part mafia, the tonton macoute exercised--and continues to exercise--an unpredictable but bloody power. To replace popularity--by this time Duvalier enjoyed little--he unleashed a propaganda campaign that featured large neon inscriptions (the only neon in Port-au-Prince), "I AM THE HAITIAN FLAG ONE AND INDIVISIBLE, DR. F. DUVALIER" and life size portraits bearing the doctor's slogan, "COUNTRY, PEACE AND JUSTICE...
Relations between the United States and the President steadily worsened until last April when palace intrigue, a threatened Dominican invasion, and a final refusal to hold elections brought the United States to the verge of marine invasion. Port-au-Prince has since ceased to be a port of call for the dollar bearing Caribbean cruise ships. All but one of the six international airlines that serviced Haiti have suspended operations and, at that, Pan American's daily flight carries more people out than...