Word: shipped
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...take to sea, setting off a panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat people froze in fear," Barnes reports. "The refugees tried to stay quiet and hide, hoping...
Haitians Interviewed on Ship...
...know, the ship and the U.S. Navy served as our gracious hosts during this trip. They provided these items for our use, not as souvenirs...
...first Haitian boat people were processed aboard a U.S. Navy ship in Kingston, Jamaica, to see if they qualified for asylum in the U.S. Six of 35 petitioners, who were picked up from three small boats, made the cut; the rest will be sent back...
...free-speech rights than airwave competitors, nearly striking down a law that requires them to allot a third of their space to local broadcast stations. Four justices voted to rescind the "must carry" provision of the 1992 Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act, but the remainder decided to ship the case back to federal appeals court in the District of Columbia. The decision has only a short-term effect, though: there'll be plenty of room for the local stations in cable's 500-channel future...