Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, concedes Darch, "we are not going to meet our goal of putting oil into the line next May." But "with a little luck," he insists, the oil will start to flow by the end of June, enabling Alyeska to begin loading tankers at the ice-free port of Valdez almost on schedule...
Although scheduled speaker Joseph P. Kennedy III was detained in Hyannis Port, Mass., Caroline Kennedy was introduced before the crowd melted back toward a table of cake, doughnuts, and coffee...
...Nyerere, 54, is the leader of the front-line-five chiefs, occupying the swing position between the moderates and the militants. Tanzania's capital, Dar es Salaam, is headquarters of the Organization of African Unity committee charged with planning confrontation strategy with white regimes, as well as a port for guerrilla supplies from the Soviet Union and China. Five thousand Rhodesian insurgents are training in Tanzanian camps...
...battle began a decade ago, when the N.A.A.C.P. led a boycott against white merchants, some of whom were public officials, in Port Gibson, Miss. The aim was to force such changes as the desegregation of the local schools, bus stations and hospital, the hiring of black policemen and the elimination of such terms of address as boy, girl, shine and uncle. In February 1967 the boycott was eased after the town hired its first black policeman. Twice more-after Martin Luther King's assassination in 1968 and the police shooting of a Port Gibson black in 1969-the N.A.A.C.P...
...bond in a libel suit it lost a trial to a policeman from another Mississippi county. By last week an emergency round of fund raising-Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson even passed the hat on the street in front of his office-had produced only $763,374 for the Port Gibson bond. At the same time a frantic series of court appearances was producing negative answers...