Word: docks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bald, bull-necked man in the dock sat impassively at the edge of his chair listening intently. Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, 66, a retired Ohio auto mechanic, was on trial in Jerusalem for operating gas chambers and murdering and torturing victims at Treblinka, the infamous Nazi extermination camp in eastern Poland where at least 850,000 Jews were killed in 1942 and '43. It was Israel's first war-crimes trial since Adolf Eichmann was convicted and executed a quarter-century ago. At issue, however, was not the horrors committed at Treblinka by the Ukrainian guard known as "Ivan...
supple as an underinflated football, he calls 12-meter racing his hobby. But nearly everyone on the dock seems to believe he has singlehandedly killed it as a pleasure sport. "The weekend sailor has been shoved out," says Ted Turner, Captain Outrageous of 1977. Tom Blackaller, one of the advocates of leisure caught in Conner's relentless wake, mourns, "I'd like to get him the hell out of sailing. I think he hurts it." Conner sighs and explains, "What they're saying is, 'If I were willing to give as much as Dennis does, I could be as good...
...capacity. For the six months ending September, four of the six major Japanese manufacturers lost money for the first time since 1979. Shipbuilder Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries plans to reduce its work force from 24,000 to 17,000 by year's end. One 90-year-old shipbuilder, Hakodate Dock, was once the largest employer in the city of Hakodate. Now the company has no orders at all for next year and beyond. In shipbuilding, as in steel, the most forceful challenge comes from South Korea, whose currency, unlike the yen, is pegged to the dollar. South Korea's share...
...stopover, the first such visit by American military ships to the People's Republic since the Communist takeover in 1949. The port call had been delayed by more than a year, following Peking's unexpected statement that no nuclear-armed vessels would be permitted to dock. But the Chinese apparently had second thoughts after reports began to circulate last summer that North Korea had granted Soviet vessels calling rights at the port of Nampo, just 340 miles across the | Yellow Sea. As Peking and Washington basked in last week's goodwill, the U.S. maintained its policy of refusing...
...Diego on the U.S.S. Breckinridge along with Robertson and some 2,000 other Marines. The ship stopped at Yokosuka and Kobe, Japan; Robertson did not continue on to Korea. "My single distinct memory," McCloskey wrote, "is of Pat, with a big grin on his face, standing on the dock . . . saying something like, 'So long, you guys -- good luck,' and telling us that his father (Democratic Senator A. Willis Robertson) had got him out of combat duty." Several months later, according to McCloskey, Robertson and five other officers who had been pulled off the Breckinridge with him were reassigned to Korea...