Word: shipped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House chief of staff Leon Panetta plans on running an extremely tight ship sometime very soon
...nearby Baie du Mesle saved dozens with quickly dispatched dugout canoes. But the rescuers estimate that at least 65 people drowned, probably more. Jean Bercharles, 25, lost seven members of his family, including a brother, sister and several cousins. "We do not know how many are dead because the ship left so quickly we don't know who got on and ( who died," said 23-year-old schoolteacher Sanon Janot. "We found bodies along the shore all day, and many we know were taken by the currents out to sea. Some of the dead came from far away and have...
...numbers. More than 5,000 refugees took to boats during the week; on Monday alone, 1,486 were picked up at sea, the largest single number in one day since the September 1991 military coup that overthrew President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. With the current processing center on a Navy ship off Jamaica already jammed, President Bill Clinton was forced to reopen the old facilities at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba to handle the overflow. "This should have been anticipated," said Ernest Preeg, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies and a former...
...Still biting the hand that's trying to free him, exiled President Aristide argued against a U.S. plan to transmit prodemocracy radio messages from military airplanes if the messages urge Haitians not to flee the country. And human-rights advocate Randall Robinson, after spending time on the American hospital ship where Haitian refugees are being questioned, declared the immigration process a sham. So far only 52 of the 289 refugees interviewed at sea have been granted refugee status...
Colonial Tea and Scones--Boston Tea Party Ship & Museum, Congress Street Bridge. 338-1773. Learn about 18th-century tea customs. $3-$6.2pm, July...