Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nonetheless, one-third of Iran's imports still travel through Soviet territory and, with its biggest port, Khorramshahr, closed, Iran is dependent on Soviet rail transport. The Soviets could retaliate by stemming those imports, courting the Mujahedin guerrillas or increasing their already considerable supply of sophisticated arms to Iraq. Soviet KGB agents from nearby Soviet Azerbaijan have reportedly infiltrated Iran to replace the agents who were arrested...
...huge flattop sat ignobly in the calm water, stuck in the mud of the bay. The 3,500-man crew could only stare across the short, unbridgeable distance to some 3,000 friends and relatives waiting in frustration at Alameda Naval Air Station, the carrier's home port. On shore, a gentle drizzle ruined the coiffures of women who had long looked forward to the reunions. Shirley Genson of Centerville, Ala., lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband, Petty Officer Kenneth Harris...
Eleven tugs, like minnows trying to budge a whale, nudged the carrier or pulled with tow lines, but the Enterprise did not move. In a maneuver akin to righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide...
...noble but often mind-numbing reminders at almost every road turning and intersection: THE LAND IS OUR WEALTH, EDUCATION IS OUR LIBERATION, WORK HARDER, GROW MORE FOOD, BUILD THE REVOLUTION. With equal alacrity, the Grenadians have adeptly copied the dress code of the revolution, and the streets of the port capital town of St. George's are filled with remarkably accurate understudies for Che Guevara. The government's "mass rallies" have got the stem-winding syntax of fighting socialism down to the last fist-raising rounds of "Long live! Long live...
...painting, Roman Catholic Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with Walesa. Both men favor negotiations between the government and Solidarity. In their view, the papal visit looms as a major opportunity to prepare the way for a new dialogue. The Catholic hierarchy thus opposes anything that could...