Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capable of independence, and won an injunction. When the company began laying pipeline to the docks of Puerto Barrios three miles away, the President showed up at the construction site, delivered a threat against the company, and relented only when Breaux agreed to lay its pipeline to a new port he is promoting three miles in the opposite direction...
...their troubles. Last May, company representatives claim, one of Ydigoras' relatives dropped into Breaux Bridge's Houston offices and asked for $1,000,000. "Otherwise," he is quoted as saying, "Breaux Bridge will never be able to operate." The firm refused. Last December port authorities announced they had a presidential order to stop pipeline construction. Company officials say they were offered another chance to escape trouble. This time the emissary was a high official in the government. His price, according to Breaux officers: $350,000, "or your troubles will continue." Again the company men said no. Buttressed...
...says a Breaux official, "our plant is finished, our pipeline is laid. We intend to begin importing crude-knowing full well that it probably will be stopped at the port...
Into the coffee port of Santos last week steamed the Dutch freighter Ruys. Aboard was ex-President Jānio Quadros, 45, whose petulant resignation seven months ago plunged Brazil into chaos, disillusion and disrepair. He came home in triumph. When the Ruys docked, Jānio, tanned, a bit flushed, and about 10 lbs. heavier than when he sailed away last August, walked into a swarm of 10,000 almost fanatic fans...
...reverberated most across the U.S. was the tinkling of telephones as householders called their lawyers and ordered them to start suing. In most major cities, suits were already pending. In New York alone, 809 Long Island property owners are waiting to go to court against 40 airlines and the Port of New York Authority, which runs the three major metropolitan airports. In Seattle, 250 homeowners are suing the Port of Seattle for millions. Los Angeles International Airport will soon be slapped with claims from 3,000 residents. In Chicago, where the complaints from residents living near O'Hare Field...