1795: A slave revolt in Cuba horrifies American slave owners because whites and Negroes joined together and demanded equality between black and white. 1796: After Spain suppresses the revolt, it ends commercial relations between Cuba and the USA. Over the next seven years, Cuban ports would be ...
Apart from the daily inter-island flights between the Samoas (and a once a week flight to Tonga), there is just one other international service to Pago Pago, the twice weekly (Monday and Thursday) Hawaiian Airlines flight from Honolulu. The Hawaiian flights are the only flights that connect ...
Attorney General John Ashcroft said the arrests of hundreds of airport employees showed that the system of background checks—done piecemeal by airlines, private contractors and others—needs tightening. That much is painfully obvious. What isn't clear is why the system was so porous (有漏洞的)...