Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan). Nonetheless, this week-nearly a decade after the project's conception and more than three years after construction started-the Alaska pipeline begins carrying its first oil through nearly 800 miles of forbidding wilderness, from Prudhoe Bay north of the Arctic Circle to the warm-water port of Valdez, which is 120 miles east of Anchorage...
...much feared renewal of rioting did not occur. There was one fatality; a 17-year-old Soweto youth was found dead in a shopping street, supposedly after having been questioned by police. The most serious disturbances occurred 1,000 miles away in the industrial town of Uitenhage, near Port Elizabeth, where seven blacks were shot dead and 33 injured in two days of rioting...
Marriage Revealed. Alan Jay Lerner, 58, Broadway lyricist laureate (My Fair Lady, Camelot); and Nina Bushkin, 27, daughter of Joey Bushkin, the jazz pianist; he for the sixth time, she for the first; on May 30 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
Hull Scars. After this rendezvous, the ship arrived in the West German port of Brake on Dec. 30. It was sold by Biscayne Traders on Jan. 5, 1970, to a Greek shipping firm for approximately $235,000-or $52,000 less than the 1968 purchase price. It bore scars on its hull, possibly from having scraped against its sister ship while the uranium was being transferred. The Scheersberg A, by then renamed Haroula, was sold again in 1976, to another Greek firm, the Pidalion Three...
...tired old tramp steamer that carried the uranium oxide from Antwerp to the eastern Mediterranean is not likely to be involved in so adventurous a mission again. Last week the salt-caked Kerkyra returned empty to the Greek port of Halkis, after carrying a load of cement to Benghazi in Libya on its regular run. Beneath the paint of the new name, dockside onlookers can still discern welded letters spelling out the old, outlined in cement dust. Scheersberg A has come in out of the cold...