Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barrels littered small Haitian airports to prevent clandestine landings. In Port-au-Prince, a spate of political murders sent oppositionists into hiding and kept nerves taut. Behind the crisis lay President Francois Duvalier's fear that he would become a stepping stone in Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro's planned invasion of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. "Haitian exiles are being trained in Havana," said Duvalier. Exhorting his people to fight back, he raised the war cry of famed Patriot Jean Jacques Dessalines (1758-1806): "Coupe tetesl Boulé cailles...
When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...Gilchrist '60, of Kirkland House and Gadsden, Ala., vice-president; James F. Flug '60, of Dunster House and New York City, treasurer; Preston Townley '60, of Leverett House and Minneapolis, Minn., station manager and member of the Administrative Board; and Edward J. McGuire, Jr. '60, of Leverett House and Port Washington, N.Y., member of the Administrative Board...
...thinking. It meant the end of the concept of a French republic "one and indivisible" and of the tradition of cultural "assimilation." But for all France's concessions, and for all the money it belatedly spent on schools (there are still only 250 in Guinea), on building the port of Conakry, on roads and on the battles against such scourges as malaria, sleeping sickness and leprosy, Toure made no secret of the fact that he regarded the Loi-cadre as only "a first step in an irreversible process." He even went to Paris to discuss "the next step...
...China's cities and the lowly cabbage was put on the ration list for the first time. Since then, laundry soap has been added to the list and the monthly sugar ration has been slashed to slightly more than half a pound per person. In the great port of Canton there is a shortage of fish; in Shanghai, meat is all but unobtainable...