Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airport and moved into parts of the city, great, 1,000-ft. pillars of black smoke angled into the sky from pipelines and oil and gas wells set ablaze by the retreating Ibos. At week's end, Biafran soldiers were still holding out in some sections of Port Harcourt, and the prospect was for long-drawn-out fighting. But the superior federal firepower seemed certain to prevail eventually, and then Port Harcourt would join the long string of Ibo ghost towns now occupied by the Lagos government...
...their once proud nation, Africa's most populous. Unfortunately, Nigeria is only partly a nation; it is, in fact, an arbitrary conglomeration of hostile tribes. The Ibos are motivated by a principle, too: self-preservation. As the Oxford-educated Ojukwu told his people after the fall of Port Harcourt: "We shall all have to return to our villages and homes, if necessary behind enemy lines, and torment and harass the federal troops at every turn; we are fighting this dreadful war not for conquest but survival...
With one of its two motors wheezing fitfully, the World War II B-25 bomber flew high over Haiti's southeastern mountains, cut across the heart of Port-au-Prince, and dropped two homemade bombs near the presidential palace and two more on the capital's Bowen Field. Only one of the four exploded. Banking to the north, the plane then headed to a clandestine base located somewhere outside Haiti, apparently loaded up with more bombs, and proceeded on to a small airstrip near Cap Haitien. There one and possibly two other larger planes had just landed with...
...several of the invaders were killed and eight were captured. The others managed to escape into the countryside, either going into hiding or fleeing toward the Dominican border. On the one plane that did not get away, the B-25 that had bombed Port-au-Prince, the government claimed that it had found anti-Duvalier leaflets ("Down with crime! Down with misery! Down with Duvalier!"), implicating New York's Haitian Coalition, a group of exiles bent on Duvalier's overthrow. To try to fix the blame, Duvalier had the eight prisoners flown to the capital and grilled them...
...they manage to stick to their schedule, "the Great Snake," as the natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...