Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rael. Nasser had been well aware of this dilemma. A few years ago, he told a British biographer, David Wynne-Morgan: "I categorically do not want to go to war with Israel. But any Arab leader who says so will be out the following morning."When Israeli Trans port Minister Shimon Peres heard of the Egyptian President's death, he spoke in a similar vein: "Nasser had experienced enough shocks of war to be careful in the future. His successor may not be so careful...
...group who lounged in the cafe smoking the hubble-bubble pipe and chewing qat (a mildly narcotic green leaf). Normally, he would have chanted verses about heroes of the past. On this occasion his epic hero was a man named Nasser, who stood on the beaches of Port Said and picked up the British tanks and the French planes and hurled them back into the sea. For him, for other black and brown and yellow men, and wherever the cry "Allahu akbar" (God is great) is heard from the minarets, the world has changed because of Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...next month. Moreover the intensive Russian experimentation comes at a time when Washington is becoming increasingly nervous about Moscow's intentions in a number of areas-from Suez, where Soviet SA-2 and SA3 missiles have been emplaced in violation of the Mideast truce, to the Cuban sugar port of Cienfuegos, where Russian technicians are building a base capable of handling missile-carrying submarines...
...ahead. It was a lead he never relinquished-though by the fifth mark the desperate Aussies had shaved the advantage to 20 sec., or barely two boat lengths. Then Picker, reading the shifting wind perfectly, put Intrepid on a starboard tack while Hardy held Gretel II on port in hope of finding a more favorable breeze. He failed. Deftly covering Gretel H's attempts to recover, Intrepid sailed home on a close reach...
Ripped by two superhighways and three railway lines, the city is now a jumble of smoky factories whose fumes often shroud Mount Fuji in a brown pall. The port area of Tagonoura, once famed for its dazzling beaches, is a stinking cesspool. What has transformed Fuji is Japan's almost mythic urge for quick industrialization-with no environmental safeguards...