Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Portugal's first colony, won from the Moors in 1415, was the North African port of Ceuta, now held by Spain...
...almost as much as death-and often there was only a fine line between them. The crude, workaday rule became: "If the pain is above the waist, give aspirin; if below, give a purgative." The sailor with raging fever or shattered bones was lucky if he made port alive. If he was unlucky, his body was deep-sixed...
Hands of God. A Sicilian ear-nose-throat specialist named Guido Guida (pronounced Gweeda) got the idea for CIRM in 1935 when he met a sick-looking sailor friend in his native port of Trapani. "I came down with bronchopneumonia en route from New York to Genoa," he explained. "Who cured you?" Guida asked...
...Hammarskjold's men already had got a taste of bitter Congolese defiance. In Matadi, the Congo's major port, Congolese troops turned on the 135-man Sudanese U.N. garrison with rifles, machine guns, mortars and 37-mm. cannon in a two-day battle that left two Sudanese dead, 13 wounded. The rest piled their blue U.N. helmets in one pile, their weapons in another, then marched out to be shipped back to Leopoldville in humiliating surrender...
Journey to Manhattan. The Congolese victors promptly declared the port closed. With the entire flow of U.N. supplies at the mercy of the Congolese, Indian U.N. Congo Chief Rajeshwar Dayal threatened force, then negotiated with the Congolese to allow his men to reenter. Seizing its chance, Kasavubu's regime demanded more Congolese influence over U.N. operations. It insisted on joint control over all air traffic in the Congo, and Congolese inspection of all arriving ships. Above all, insisted the Congolese, one U.N. official must leave and not return: Rajeshwar Dayal...