Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...barely clearing the hills above the Pacific port of Vladivostok, less than 40 miles from China. At the same moment, on the Bering Strait across from Alaska, the easternmost edge of the Soviet world is well on the way to an Arctic noon. And in Moscow, ten time zones to the west over an endless expanse of tundra, forests and inland seas, it is half past midnight, and yesterday has just ended. Not for eight hours will the commuters to the left head for their jobs in the capital from suburban Zagorsk. In the Soviet Union, more than anywhere else...
...PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, 1980. My oldest brother was letting off a steady stream of terse French phrases while walking through the Iron Market. He used stock phrases, usually ending up with "Tu n'en as pas besoin" (You don't need it) to a beggar or "Je n'en ai pas besoin" (I don't need it) to a street vendor...
...Group of 57 organized numerous national strikes and demonstrations. The aim of the protests, they said, was to dislodge or reform a government that has repeatedly violated Haiti's new constitution. At the height of the protests this summer, the day was rare when the ramshackle boulevards of Port-au-Prince were not blocked by barriers of flaming tires. Each day, as the sun slipped in the sky and the air grew cooler, bands of boys played soccer around the debris. By evening, the thick black smoke enveloped the city. The sunsets were brown...
...army recently occupied Raboteau, a large shantytown in the city of Gonaives. They arrested, detained and beat several people and terrorized Raboteau residents. Recently, Haitians in the countryside, fed up with army abuses and the lack of protection, have begun to retaliate. In Tabar, a small village just outside Port-au-Prince, a group of townspeople captured ten men who had repeatedly robbed and attacked the locals. In the ensuing melee, three of those captured were killed. Last Sunday several men burst into the living quarters of a Dutch priest who had recently said a funeral Mass for a Tabar...
...several progressive clergymen who joined this summer's attack on the government is the Rev. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, an energetic priest with a solid constituency among the hundreds of thousands of discarded people who live in the slums of Port-au-Prince. He is known as the priest of the poor, and visitors walking through the hallways of the church compound where he works are likely to stumble over abandoned children who use the place as a sort of unofficial clubhouse, sleeping and playing ferocious games of cards and marbles...