Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek island, and the harbor at Portofino...
They began to come one night in late March. Just after dark, a Soviet freighter arrived off Takoradi, Ghana's principal port-where all operations normally are in the daylight hours-and advised the harbor authorities that it was ready to discharge its cargo immediately. Although the harbor pilots usually go off duty at 4:30 p.m., the ship was quickly berthed...
...swing the deal, Hamilton flew to Hong Kong, ate 14-course meals with the Communist negotiators and cruised the harbor on their yacht. He nailed it down by offering credit: 25% down and the balance in nine months in each year of the contract. Though Opposition Leader Mike Pearson delicately questioned the propriety of offering better credit terms to Peking than to friendly nations, most Canadians seemed too busy counting the goodies to make any complaints. If all went well (as Communist deals do not), Canada's recession-hurt railways would move 142,000 carloads of grain...
Nearly all the civilian administrators prudently disappeared or refused to cooperate. Challe dispatched a squad to capture Admiral Jean-Marie Querville, commander of the Mediterranean fleet. Querville hid behind a tree in his garden and escaped to the Algiers harbor. Soon he got a call from Challe inviting him to join. "If we don't do it this way, we'll have a Communist-backed government here in six months," said Challe. "If we do it this way," answered Querville, "the Communists will be here sooner than that." Querville left by destroyer for the big naval base...
...Late jam sessions, midnight until unconscious," advertised one nightclub. In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed...