Word: port
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Victory Day in Port Said, six years exactly since the last British soldier left Suez. There to celebrate the occasion was Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. As 20,000 Egyptians cheered, Nasser called the British-from Queen to commoner-"sons of bitches," sneered at his critics, and ridiculed as a pair of "nuts" Jordan's King Hussein and Saudi Arabia's King Saud because they oppose Egypt's military venture in Yemen, where Nasser supports the rebel Abdullah Sallal...
Washington was wrong if it thought that Nasser would withdraw Egyptian forces and leave the area in peace in exchange for U.S. diplomatic recognition of Yemen's revolutionary regime. Instead, Nasser made it clear at Port Said that he plans to stay in Yemen, the better to export revolution into the British-protected states-ranging from Kuwait in the north of the Arabian peninsula to Aden in the south-as well as to Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia...
...television season is a heartless voyage captained by fast-buccaneers. Last week, scarcely out of port, the following shows were set up on the plank and told to start walking...
...policy to see Castro unseated, if only through economic and political pressures. The U.S. has been urging its allies, with some success, to give up trade with Cuba and restrict ships flying their flags from carrying goods there, is ready with a four-point plan that would deny U.S. port privileges and business to foreign shipowners whose ships continue to enter Cuban ports...
Real Thrust. Having lost its main industries. Phenix City seemed about to die. But slowly, steadily, it has risen from the ashes of its vice. Last week Phenix City was grading land for a modern river port that will become a transfer point for shipping to such major nearby cities as Atlanta and Birmingham. On blueprints or in the works are a new $400,000 municipal building, two fire stations, a bank, an office building, a post office, a bridge, a $3,700,000 sewer program. New schools have shot up. 20 miles of dirt streets have been paved...