Word: port
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...operetta" involving "a handful" of men, including two retired admirals. But shortly afterward, 32 senior naval officers were arrested and presumably will be tried on charges of treason. Then 31 other navymen, led by the commander of the destroyer Velos, mutinied and were granted asylum at the port of Fiumicino in Italy. Then the government admitted that the "operetta" had been a serious attempt at revolution...
Scene: Hyannis Port, early spring, 1968, a few months before Bobby Kennedy's assassination. Bobby was leading in the presidential polls. Jacqueline Kennedy was "more excited than I had seen her for years," Joseph Kennedy's nurse, Rita Dallas, writes in her new book The Kennedy Case. "Won't it be wonderful when we get back in the White House...
Meanwhile, the fighting spread far beyond Beirut. Major battles rocked the port of Tyre, 45 miles to the south, and broke out in stretches inside the northern and eastern borders, where at least 2,000 Palestinian troops crossed into Lebanon from bases in Syria. The Syrian government insisted that it would not send its army into Lebanon, but its sympathies, like those of Libya, were clearly with the fedayeen. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi urged the guerrillas to seize the Beirut airport so that he could send them Libyan fighter planes. Syria closed its border to Lebanon; with the Beirut airport...
...question, the primary topic at the new negotiations will be the desperate situation in Cambodia, where Communist and a wide variety of other antigovernment forces are making impressive headway. Last week they seized a part of the east bank of the Mekong River opposite Phnom-Penh's downtown port area. Ferries bustled back and forth bringing swarms of refugees fleeing villages only two miles away on the opposite bank...
Midget. Running through all this are the glories and disasters of the Ruppert Mundys of Port Ruppert, N.J. Smith recalls the Mundys' history, complete with scores from their games with such teams as the Kakoola Reapers, the Acedama Butchers and the Terra Incognita Rustlers. Anyone familiar with the 4-F players of wartime baseball will sympathize with the 1943 Mundys. Their roster of freaks and misfits includes a one-legged catcher; a 14-year-old second baseman; a midget pinch hitter, "a credit to his size," who is reminiscent of the one Bill Veeck fielded with...