Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet counterploys prompted U.S. concern that Moscow might want to establish a permanent port of call at Cam Ranh Bay, the sparkling white-sand harbor northeast of Saigon that served as the main U.S. Navy base in the Viet Nam War. Having rights to Cam Ranh would give the Soviets a dramatic new naval advantage and would pose a potential threat to Chinese and Western shipping lanes, especially Japan's petroleum lifeline through the Strait of Malacca. But with no overt Soviet moves by week's end, Western observers remained hopeful that Hanoi's independent-minded leaders...
...active role in the investigation of King appointees, the House recently proposed a resolution calling for it to launch a preliminary inquiry. The state's only other investigative commission, a blue-ribbon panel on the MBM contracts scandal, is currently seeking the authority to look into the Massachusetts Port Authority, an agency directed by King until his firing in 1975. Whether either commission will eventually plunge into the King affair remains in doubt, but Harshbarger said the suggestion "would have to be taken very seriously...
Some boat kids can swim before they can walk. Dorothea Johnston's ketch-reared kids have left Long Beach Marina, their home port, but Son Monte, 25, is an aspiring officer in the Merchant Marine, while Daughter Thea, 26, became Southern California's first woman deckhand on a commercial fishing boat. (She is studying for her captain's license...
...West's salad days, as Florida's largest (18,000 inhabitants) and wealthiest city, were just before the turn of the 20th century. It had the largest port in the Gulf of Mexico, its cigar industry employed 10,000 workers, and almost all of the country's sponges were caught by its fleet. Then came a spectacular decline. The U.S. naval station closed, the cigar industry was lured to Tampa, blight wiped out the sponge beds, the city went bankrupt, and a 1935 hurricane ruined the railway from the mainland. Except for a momentary revival during World...
...sold Iran upwards of $11 billion in civilian goods, everything from 15,000 pregnant Wisconsin milch cows for the Iranian dairy industry to a complete telephone switching system by General Telephone and Electronics. Billions more in long-term contracts, covering such things as housing and highway construction and port development, remain still to be fulfilled by large corporations, including Ford and AT&T. Few if any civilian contracts have been canceled so far, and businessmen hope that socially useful projects like housing, hospitals and schools will survive no matter who winds up in power. Even so, many companies...