Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal slid out of the Greek port of Salonica one grey dawn last week, a 900-ton escort ship waited for her just outside the harbor. The Forrestal turned southward into the Aegean Sea, and the escort dutifully took up station a mile astern, rolling gently in the huge carrier's wake. At midday, when the Forrestal catapulted her Phantom jets into clearing skies, the escort drew alongside to within 50 yards of the carrier. But not a signal was exchanged. The escort vessel was Russian, a super gunboat of the Mirka class, and the Forrestal...
Snap of the Fingers. Black-bereted naval infantrymen, the Soviet version of Marines, stroll the streets of Damascus. Intelligence trawlers refuel at what has become the Soviets' main Mediterranean port of call, Alexandria. Soviet patrol boats tie up 1,700 miles to the west at the Algerian port of Mers-el-Kebir. Soviet subs play hide-and-seek with NATO patrols underneath the heel of Italy. Overhead, from bases in Egypt, Soviet "Badger" class planes, their red stars painted over with Egyptian markings, wing daily across the Mediterranean to shadow Allied fleets...
...DOROTHY CHATEAUBRIAND Port Washington...
...such precedents. Streeter was far more concerned about the fact that Scott's Negroid characteristics proved that Damaschke was not the boy's father -even though no one claimed that he was. More important, the judge made it clear that racial integration is not particularly popular in Port Huron, where the Damaschkes live. "I am a politician," said Streeter. "I get around the county, or I wouldn't have been elected three times, and I know of no white family in St. Clair county that has a colored child outside of this...
Oriental Playmates? Both Streeter and Assistant Prosecutor Ronald Flanigan argued that two-year-old Scott would be more comfortable living in the colored South Park section of Port Huron instead of in the Damaschkes' white neighborhood. "There's a noticeable difference in color between your other children in the home and Scott, is there not?" Flanigan asked Damaschke's wife Joy, belaboring the obvious. Does the boy have any Negro, Indian or Oriental playmates? asked the prosecutor. Judge Streeter had a question for the social worker who testified for the Damaschkes. "Can't you foresee...