Word: port
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East & West. The flood of arms has entered the Congo from almost all sides (see map), and in such quantity that some Western intelligence sources say the Simbas cannot possibly absorb any more. Some light equipment was unloaded from Russian and Chinese ships at the Brazzaville Congo port of Pointe Noire, shipped by rail to Gamboma, and smuggled across the Congo River, possibly to secret Simba units in Bolobo -only 180 miles upriver from Leopoldville. Other shipments arrived by sea at Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam, were sent in sealed boxcars to the lake port of Kigoma...
...YEMEN was ruled by leftist, Nasser-leaning Crown Prince Mohammed al Badr when the Russians first moved in to build a $15 million Red Sea port at Hodeida in the feudal land. When Al Badr turned conservative in 1962 under Republican attack, the Soviets reversed themselves to back the opposition headed by Abdullah Sallal, built him an airport and 150 low-cost houses, promised $72 million more in various projects. None have even been begun, since Moscow is plainly worried that it may have switched to the wrong horse in midstream. All told, Moscow has offered $142 million...
...Western Hemisphere, which will require shipping everything from scientists to cherry pickers across 4,400 miles of ocean, as well as digging a deep-water port near Cayenne? De Gaulle's spacemen explain that Guiana, being near the Equator, offers scientific advantages-such as facilitating polar as well as equatorial orbits and achieving greater orbital speed from the earth's rotation...
...years later, he gleefully ob served: "The worms are now feeding on this rotten old man." Though he was more restrained about the U.S. during the Kennedy years, the "nonaligned" Nasser is now back in full invective form, as he proved last week in a tympany-tempered speech at Port Said. "Anyone who does not like our atti tude," he roared, "can drink the sea. And if the Mediterranean is not big enough, we will give him the Red Sea as well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador...
...Port Wife. His granddaughters, romanticizing Audubon's own embellished accounts, implied that he might have been France's "lost Dauphin"-the son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, whom she tried to smuggle out of France just before she died on the guillotine. John Audubon was, in fact, the bastard son of a Breton-born chambermaid, and was sired not at Versailles but in Haiti in 1785. The father was Jean Audubon, a captain of French merchantmen and men-of-war. Though he commanded a corvette in Count de Grasse's fleet at the surrender of Yorktown...