Word: port
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British freighter Nigelock, a converted wartime corvette loaded with fruit and vegetables, steamed through the China Sea one velvet night last week, outward bound from Communist Shanghai to Communist Amoy. At-first light, a gunboat appeared on the port bow and ordered the Britisher to heave to. Not me, said Nigelock's captain, and rang for full steam ahead. His radio crackled an S O S to the British destroyer Cockade, on patrol in the Formosa strait...
Since the Korean armistice was signed two months ago. eleven merchant vessels -nine British, one Danish and one Italian -have been intercepted in the China Sea. At least two were escorted to the Nationalist port of Keelung, where their cargoes were confiscated. One, the S.S. Inchkilda, was rescued by the British light aircraft carrier Unicorn, which signaled the Admiralty: "Unicorn closed and ordered the gunboat to stop. None of the riffraff on board could read the signal...
After each interception, the British consul in Taipei protests to the Nationalist government. Taipei's invariable reply: "We know nothing about it ... They must be sea guerrillas." The British cry "piracy," but the Nationalists do not even call it a blockade; their phrase is "port closure," which they insist they have the right to enforce, on Ihe grounds that they are still the legal government of China. So far, both sides have avoided a breach out of deference to their common ally, the U.S. The State Department says, "We have no policy in the matter...
...critics-panned him, but that did not worry Quinquela, who has sold all the pictures he ever painted. In the first eleven days of the show, 15 pictures were sold at about $1,500 apiece. All of them were bold scenes from La Boca, Buenos Aires' wretched port district where Quinquela grew up and still lives. On the canvases, he has transformed its rusty tramp steamers into gay red and green fleets, its waterfront toughs into noble-looking heroes...
...Egyptian port of Alexandria, a band struck up the national anthem, and Egypt's flag was hoisted to the mast of a spick & span ocean liner, the 15,000-ton Gumhuriyat Misr ("Republic of Egypt"). There to welcome the British-built vessel, along with her sister ship Mecca, to the Egyptian merchant fleet was President Mohammed Naguib. Gesturing to a dark and dapper man in a checked tropical worsted suit and red tarboosh, Naguib paid Egypt's thanks to Ahmed Abboud, "that great and capable man who has rendered so many services to his country in the economic...