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...everybody knows there is a crisis in the fisheries, but just a few miles away in the village, people are often shocked to hear there is any problem at all. It was heartening to see your article because if there is a lack of awareness here in a seaport, the rest of the country (and the rest of the world) must be completely in the dark. Fish, being slimy and all that, are not easy to get comfortable with, but if what happened to a noble creature like the swordfish was the fate of a land-based mammal of equal...
...York City's South Street Seaport, St. Louis Station and other similar developments followed. Not all were successful: Rouse projects in smaller cities like Toledo, Ohio, and Richmond, Virginia, were financial flops, proving that street jugglers and candle shops cannot solve every city's economic woes. By that time, however, Rouse had retired from active management of his company and formed the Enterprise Foundation, which has financed 61,000 homes for the poor since 1981 and worked on solving inner-city problems like joblessness and drugs. Profit, he insisted, should never be the primary motive for a developer: "What should...
Driving to a Mediterranean seaport in 1986, Tom Darcy didn't realize he was part of espionage's wave of the future. Most CIA officers operate overseas as U.S. diplomats. But Darcy was posing as a businessman, an operative with what the CIA calls nonofficial cover, or NOC (pronounced knock). Darcy was transporting signal- interception equipment to a CIA boat that would sail off the coast of Lebanon to eavesdrop on terrorists. In front of him, police at a roadblock were searching all cars. If the police discovered his spy equipment, there would be no diplomatic immunity to keep...
...letter writer to the New York Times expressed the same skepticism. Economics professor Thomas Martin wrote, ``If we accept this fallacy, we should also expect to see bombing campaigns included in the next fiscal-stimulus package.'' A rebuilding project that will not want for money is Kobe's crippled seaport. By far the most modern dockyard complex in Japan, it normally handles about 30% of all the country's container shipping. Last week only 27 of 191 berths remained in working order, none of them slips for container carriers. Finished just two years ago, the facilities on the artificial island...
Even with 20,000-plus U.S. troops deployed around Haiti and more on the way, officials at the Pentagon expressed concern that the country was slipping into chaos as violence between pro-Aristide forces and opponents continued. On Thursday an explosion near the seaport killed six bystanders and wounded at least 43, and on Friday, with U.S. troops standing by just blocks away, pro- junta gunmen fired on a rally of Aristide supporters; at least six died in the ensuing clashes. Meanwhile, in New York City, the U.N. Security Council voted to lift sanctions against Haiti, but the resolution will...