Word: docked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rich Nigeria, thanks to a colossal spending binge, is in one dreadful financial mess. The most visible sign of it was outside Apapa, port for the capital city of Lagos. Last week no fewer than 406 ships of all shapes and sizes were backed up waiting their turn for dock space. At least one vessel has been stuck outside Apapa since last February. Maritime experts call it the worst shipping jam in modern history...
...develop and modernize Black Africa's most populous country. Unfortunately, no one stopped to figure what would happen when all the goodies arrived. One item in desperate need of modernization was the port of Apapa itself; the ordered machinery and parts are stuck in ships unable to dock...
...Americans are persuaded that the U.S. is being had once again. Meany has called the Soviet grain buying "just a rip-off of the American consumer" for the sake of a "phony" détente. But he also shares a specific concern of the maritime unions: shipping arrangements. The dock workers are still angry about 1972, when the bulk of the 24 million tons of grain and soybeans sold to Russia was shipped in vessels belonging to foreign countries. This time the unions want Administration assurances that 50% of the Russian-bound grain will move in U.S. ships manned...
Critics of the mission who have complained that the Soyuz spacecraft is too "primitive" to bother docking with should realize that if it weren't for the launching of that spacecraft, we would not be launching an Apollo for any reason. The Soyuz program, however primitive it may be, is still advancing steadily. By contrast, Apollo and Skylab are dead. When viewed in this light, it is actually the Soviets who are condescending to dock with us. Soyuz is just coming into its own, while Apollo is putting on its encore performance...
...output. They have arbitrarily called strikes and in the fanatic saneamento (literally, "cleaning up") campaign, have purged from their plants all those accused of the undefined crime of "economic sabotage." Managers have been so harassed that many have abandoned their companies. Laborers at Lisnave, Europe's largest dry dock, have reduced work hours so much that 50% has been added to the lay-up time for ships. The nationalization of all the country's banks, insurance companies and half of its industries has brought foreign investment to a halt, even though foreign assets have been exempted. Half...