Word: port
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never dared attack the Simbas' mountain redoubt of Fizi, located high above Lake Tanganyika and reachable only by roads so narrow and precipitous that they are impassable during rainstorms. Led by Castro Cuban advisers and supplied with Red Chinese arms ferried in from Tanzania to the lake port of Baraka, the 5,500-man ragtag rebel force was roaming at will through a 200-sq.-mi. patch of the eastern Congo, cutting roads, murdering and terrorizing the population. Tshombe knew the Simbas had to be driven out of Fizi, and to do the job he once again called...
Castro promised to arrange a special embarkation port at Camarioca, on the north coast of Matanzas province, where boats from the U.S. could pick up refugees. On each trip, the rescue boats could have 48 hours in port "with all guarantees." In fact, said Castro, he might supply a few boats himself to help speed matters, later in the week added that he would even schedule two "free" airplane flights a day into the U.S. Warming up, he then went on to say that the offer was being expanded still further-any Cuban at all who wanted to leave could...
...brine, then melt down as fresh water. One important advantage of this kind of desalinization is that it takes less power to freeze than to heat. A prototype plant, developed by Zarchin and built by Colt Industries Inc. of the U.S., is now in operation at the Red Sea port of Elath...
...most active U.S. bank overseas, Citibank this week will open its 127th foreign outpost in Colombia's port city of Cartagena. This year it has sprouted eight other foreign branches from West Berlin to Kuala Lumpur. At home, it has blanketed New York City and suburbs with 151 branches, fully exploiting its status as the city's only nationally chartered bank, thus being exempt from New York State's strict limits on branching. Hoping to catch up with Citibank, stockholders of Chase Manhattan last week voted to switch to a national charter...
...program is the construction of a $190 million, 70-mile-long North-South Canal that will link Hamburg to the Mittelland Canal, itself to be deepened and widened at a cost of $420 million. The new canal, running parallel to the River Elbe, will give the North Sea port direct access to the Ruhr industrial complex, is expected to generate an extra 10 million tons of freight annually after it is completed in 1972 The plan also calls for deepening and improving five other major canals...