Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months later, it became a daily routine. The American campaign from the skies is running some 670 sorties a day over both North and South Viet Nam, rivaling that of the Korean War. For the third time, Navy jets returned to the big oil-storage tanks outside the port of Haiphong, claimed afterward that cumulative destruction of the complex now stood at 90%. Though monsoon clouds hampered raids north of the Red River, American planes elsewhere in Ho Chi Minh-land pounded 41 smaller fuel depots, bridges, flak sites and more than 230 barges...
...building in midtown. Last week, after six months of hassling over tax terms, Mayor John Lindsay and the Port of New York Authority came to terms, gave the green light to the construction of the $525 million World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan. Main feature of the Minoru Yamasaki-designed 16-acre complex: twin stainless-steel towers, each 110 stories tall, or 100 ft. taller than the Empire State Building, which since 1931 has retained the proud title "Tallest Building in the World...
...Thereupon, Israel invaded the bleak, sand-blown Sinai Peninsula, ostensibly to destroy guerrilla bases operating against her borders. Then, speaking loftily of "separating the belligerents" and "protecting" the canal, Britain and France ordered Egypt to surrender its control to them; when Egypt refused, they began bombing Cairo and Port Said. In the end, amid the angry protests of the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles and a rattle of rockets from Moscow, the three countries finally withdrew in ignominy...
...toward fitting most of the 41 missile-equipped subs with the 2,500-mile-range A-3 Polaris. Nuclear energy gives them unparalleled mobility and almost indefinite sea-keeping capacity; based in Spain, Guam and Scotland, they patrol up to 60 days each, returning to port to change their 140-man crews. Not surprisingly, the Soviet Union has tried to follow suit, is believed to have up to 15 nuclear-powered subs; each is equipped with three 500-mile-range missiles, and in all likelihood they can be launched only from the surface...
...proposed treaties as serving only the Soviet's interests. Shortly after the joint fleet proposal they denounced Russia's aid overtures as an attempt to gain control of China. The fleet question particularly was anathema to the Chinese because the Soviets had suggested the fleet be based at Port Arthur. "For the Russians to have returned to Port Arthur at this time would have been like the British returning to Boston in 1800," Rendell said...