Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet authorities are concerned at the increasing number of Soviet youths trying to sneak illegally out of Russia itself. Recently two young Russians tried to leave the country by swimming out to a foreign tanker in the Black Sea port of Batum; they were picked up by a Soviet harbor patrol boat. One was sentenced to six years in prison, the other to ten. One of the men, said Soviet officials, had been influenced by modern, Western-style poetry-"bad verse that had been rejected by all editorial offices...
Peterson managed to circle the plane and head it back toward Cheyenne. Alerted by radio message. Air Force crash trucks raced to emergency stations along the runway. Into the control tower rushed Lou Domenico, 41, an ex-Air Force flight instructor and owner of Cheyenne's Sky Harbor Air Service. He was about to give the most important flying lesson of his career, a life-or-death radio exchange with the Cessna. Excerpts...
...some accounts, upwards of 20,000 Soviet troops are still in Cuba. Construction of underground depots, heavy pillboxes, hangars and runways is moving ahead rapidly under Russian supervision. The island's antiaircraft missile defenses are being strengthened. Cuba is virtually under Russian occupation. In Havana's harbor lie a dozen ships flying the hammer and sickle. Cuban shoppers buy Russian canned foods. Plaques and pictures praise "martyrs of the proletariat." Tens of thousands of children are being indoctrinated with Communist propaganda...
...Delhi, where they became lost in a labyrinth of red tape. It was over a year before local merchants were allowed to pick up goods imported and paid for before liberation, by which time much of the stuff had rotted away on the docks of Mormugão harbor. Though Portugal oppressively banned all political opposition, it did give Goa a considerable amount of local autonomy. Under New Delhi's rule, Goa hoped at least to become a separate state. But the neighboring Indian states of Mysore and Maharashtra, covetous of Goa's economic potential and of Mormug...
...Many of the 1,500,000 passengers that stream through Puerto Rico's airport each year are bound to and from the Virgins, a cluster of tiny islands, the three largest of which were bought by the U.S. from Denmark in 1917. Principal Virgin is St. Thomas, whose harbor, Charlotte Amalie, is a free port, and hence the most popular stop for cruise ships in the Caribbean (tourists returning to the U.S. from the Virgins may also bring in $200 worth of purchases duty-free, instead of the regular $100 limit). St. Thomas has some spectacular, if sometimes remote...