Word: port
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...carnage as usual in Beirut last week as Lebanon's 25th cease-fire in a year began with shelling, sniping and an opening-day death toll of 110. Moslem leftists advanced on the Christian-held port quarter of the capital by blowing a passage through already battle-scarred buildings, rather than moving through the streets. The city's international airport, under Moslem control, became a target for the first time when a dozen mortar rounds crashed into a hangar area, wounding seven and setting a Boeing 707 freighter on fire. Hopes were briefly raised when units of Syrian...
...three decades of feverish shipbuilding, the Russians have the second biggest navy, the No. 1 fishing fleet and-here is the clincher-a rapidly growing merchant marine that has already opened a new era of commercial competition on the high seas.* Soviet shippers are plying routes to every major port, from San Francisco to Dar es Salaam, Hamburg to Mombasa. It is almost as if the Russians were following the turn-of-the-century imperialist dictum: "Trade follows the flag...
...sixth might power stroke, when a member of the port side caught a crab, Harvard moved backwards again. Never regaining composure, the Crimson J.V. slapped even with the Coast Guard during the next 500 meters at a dangerously high cadence...
Posters plastered all over the picturesque fishing port of New Bedford, Mass., proclaim: THE SOVIET FISHING FLEET IS TWELVE MILES OFF OUR COAST AND SUCKING UP EVERYTHING THAT SWIMS, CRAWLS OR HIDES IN THE SAND. Beneath ominous-looking silhouettes of Russian trawlers, the posters urge: SUPPORT THE 200-MILE FISHING LIMIT. Congress is now getting the message. This week both House and Senate are expected to pass a bill extending U.S. jurisdiction over coastal waters from its present twelve miles to 200 miles; President Ford's signature is likely. Under the bill, which will take effect next March...
...available with good humor and hope for better times. Paul Creasey, 25, a U.C.L.A. history B.A., had hoped to become a management trainee but instead mans a spray hose for a commercial pesticide company. "It's not exactly what I had in mind," says he, "but any port in a storm...