Word: port
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...forces, the raid was considered in Beirut to be not much more than a psy-war gesture. Leaflets scattered by the frogmen admonished Lebanese fishermen against assisting Palestinian guerrillas in launching other seaborne attacks similar to the assault on Nahariya, which Israel believed must have originated in a Lebanese port. "Take this warning to heart before it is too late," the leaflets said in Arabic. "Shun evil. Avoid it at all cost...
...Port of Call (1948) is being shown at MIT tonight as part of a six week Bergman festival. Shows are at 7:30 and 9:30, admission is $1. Remember we've got other Bergman playing around. Persona is at the Brattle and it's not too bad. The Touch is playing with a decent Wedding in Blood at Central Sq., and it stinks...
...following year he captured the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Allen Ellender. A racial moderate, Johnston is an exceptionally effective television candidate. He has co-sponsored an extension of national wage-price controls and, for his oil-rich home state, has proposed building a port for supertankers...
...nation of ample natural resources," says Mohammed Imadi, the American-educated Economy Minister. "We have the land, oil, phosphates, iron ore, the right geographical location and a hardworking people." A magnificent sweep of Mediterranean coast is waiting to be developed; at the moment, Latakia is the only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless as those in Kansas or Nebraska...
Syria also profits from its geographic position at the "waist" of the Middle East, between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Lebanese and Kuwaiti trucks, among others, carry goods from the port of Beirut through Syria to merchants in the gulf sheikdoms. In addition to its own growing oil revenues, Syria gets an estimated $125 million in fees from the oil pipeline from Iraq to Banias and the Tapline from Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese port of Sidon...