Word: boatloads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LAST MAY CANDIDATE CLINTON WAS "APPALLED" BY George Bush's decision to force every boatload of fleeing Haitians back to the thugs in charge of their country, without checking to see if anyone on board qualified for political ( asylum under a treaty the U.S. signed. But President Clinton now backs forcible return, and a government lawyer (a Bush holdover) vigorously argued for it last week before the Supreme Court. This broken promise has infuriated black leaders and human-rights lawyers. But Clinton fears that an armada of poor blacks will wash up on Florida...
...effort to forestall a massive refugee influx from Haiti, both the old and new White House Administrations were pushing for a political settlement between the military and ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Last week, however, the boats kept coming: a record boatload of 352 Haitian refugees sailed up the Miami River...
Love him or hate him, President Carlos Saul Menem is never dull. Since taking office in 1989, he has been embroiled in enough scandals to sink a boatload of American politicians...