Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...morning at dawn last week, the Eurydice slipped out of her port at the resort of St.-Tropez for a three-hour training exercise. Her skipper was Lieut. Bernard de Truchis de Lays, 34, who had served for two years as executive officer of the Minerve but had been transferred a few months before she was lost. At 7:13, the Eurydice sent her last message: she was diving in calm seas off Cape Camarat, 35 miles east of Toulon. A few minutes later, a geophysical laboratory picked up the shock waves of a violent underwater explosion...
Saint Clair County Community College Port Huron, Mich...
...intended to transmit Middle East oil more quickly and cheaply to the Mediterranean for shipment to Europe and the Western Hemisphere. Last week Egypt's plans were still on the drawing board, but oil was flowing through the Israelis' underground pipeline, which stretches 159 miles from the Port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba to Ashkelon on the Mediterranean...
...said King David to his downcast general, Joab, during a battle with the Ammonites for the city that is today the Jordanian capital of Amman. And so said Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week in similar circumstances. Dayan was in the port city of Eilat, surveying the capsized hulk of an Israeli supply ship sunk by Egyptian limpet mines, when he quoted the Second Book of Samuel. Hours later, as if in response to his exhortation, Israeli airmen over the Gulf of Suez sank an Egyptian mine layer that normally carries a crew...
...fuel oil. Because Maine was underdeveloped and had good ports, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Atlantic Richfield and Atlantic World Port each proposed to build a refinery near Machiasport. Another company, King Resources, acquired 300 acres on Long Island in Casco Bay, where it planned to build a huge oil-receiving and storage terminal. At first glance, the projects looked like a bonanza. But few Maine residents rejoiced wholeheartedly. The state's famous thick fogs and treacherous coastal waters made oil spills from tankers a probability-and a potential disaster to Maine's fishing and tourism industries...