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...chicken and rice less than two hours before they drowned. Since the food could not easily have been cooked on the overcrowded boat, Wright concluded that the Haitians had eaten on a large freighter run by smugglers and then were herded onto La Nativité a few miles from shore. Said Wright: "To me that's hard and fast proof they were dumped off from a mother ship...
...fishing craft. By 1980, Thailand was overwhelmed by nearly 300,000 refugees from Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Government policy in Bangkok shifted, and Thai fishermen, who once came to the aid of the refugees, were given three-day jail sentences if they towed a leaking refugee boat to shore...
...decision to shore up Faculty salaries this summer by boosting wages faster than inflation put particular financial pressure on the Faculty budget. The salary hike has effectively nullified gains stemming from recent drops of several points in the rate of inflation and small drops in the rate of increase of the Faculty's energy costs...
Museum administrators said yesterday they will use funds collected through the drive to pay off the Busch-Reisinger's $82,000 deficit, shore up its endowment, and fund cultural and education programs that the museum cannot now afford...
Fenn agreed the library is difficult to get to, adding that 60 per cent of the Boston visitors come from the South Shore...