Word: port
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...Russians, Vladivostok was the most fortuitous acquisition in the Far East; for the Chinese, it was the most galling loss. The port is situated on Golden Horn Bay, which opens onto the Sea of Japan; it was linked to Moscow by the Trans-Siberian Railway...
Vladivostok is the home port of the Soviet Pacific fleet. The harbor freezes in the winter but is kept open by icebreakers. Naval war games have frequently been staged offshore. That fact, combined with the heavy concentration of vessels in its harbor and the presence of a missile base, explains why the city has been out of bounds to foreigners...
...another revolutionary turned politician, Fidel Castro. Meanwhile, there were six dead in more border clashes along the Israel-Lebanon frontier last week, and there was a dramatic partial mobilization of Israeli forces directed toward Syria, which, according to Rabin, was unloading some 20 shiploads of Soviet arms at the port of Latakia. Alarming as the mobilization was, neither the Israelis nor Kissinger felt that hostilities were imminent. Indeed, earlier in the week Rabin had emphasized that Israel is prepared to carry out the disengagement agreements and expects the Arabs to do the same. But he also warned: "If they force...
Smith cited the "gift" of $550,000 to William Ronan when Ronan was chairman of the New York Port Authority as a possible "conflict of interest and attempt to unduly influence public employees." Rockefeller was then governor of New York...
...express interest in investing. As a result of Mobutu's visit to Peking last year, Kinshasa now swarms with Chinese doctors and agricultural technicians. The Japanese have been asked to help build Zaire's first transnational railroad. The French and Belgians are planning a new deepwater port at Banana, Zaire's only direct sea outlet on its short 23-mile Atlantic coastline...