Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tyrant, illegally perpetuating himself in power. His private army of Tonton Macoutes. meaning bogeymen in Creole, crushes the opposition and shakes down businessmen. The bogeymen even insist on distributing the U.S. gifts of food and taking their cut; the U.S. refuses, and so the food sits rotting in a Port-au-Prince warehouse. All development-economic, social, political-is at a standstill, while Haiti remains one of the poorest countries in the Americas...
...daring coup on the high seas. FALN agents had just hijacked the 3,127-ton government-owned freighter Anzoátegui only a few hours after it left the port of La Guaira bound for Houston and New Orleans. Betancourt might have expected something of the sort. Though the pro-Castro group is not powerful enough to overthrow Venezuela's President, it does its best to embarrass him-particularly since he is scheduled to make a state visit to the U.S. this week. In the campaign, FALN terrorists have been shooting up police cars, setting fire to U.S. businesses...
...will end all aid as soon as possible. The U.S. will honor its promise of $1,500,000 a year over the next two or three years for a malaria-control program, and will fulfill a $2,800,000 commitment for a jet airport at Port-au-Prince. But no more. "It is unfeasible to do anything in Haiti." says a high State Department official. "We have stopped wasting our money, and we are prepared to accept the consequences...
...Taian Maru, churned through the Pacific last week on a historic journey. On its way from Coos Bay, Ore., to Puerto Rico with a load of Pacific Northwest lumber, the Taian Maru is the first foreign flag ship in more than four decades to carry cargo from one U.S. port to another...
Unless the petition is accepted Federal books will be closed on the Donnelly Field, Houghton and Cambridge-port renewal projects and their $20 million Federal appropriation. "Once the books are closed you sometimes have a very difficult time reopening them," Crane said...