Word: port
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...away from its democratic-socialist parent organization. Starting with a few hundred members scattered from Harvard to Berkeley, the group gradually constructed a platform which linked the students' own impatience with mainstream Democratic politics to the suffering of the non-white and the destitute. In its 1962 manifesto, The Port Huron Statement, SDS zeroed in on the links between the corporate world, the government and the university which were blamed for blocking fundamental deviation from the status quo. Faced with the opportunity to channel its energy into opposition to the quietly growing U.S. commitment in Southeast Asia, SDS consciously opted...
Following a tip from an informant, law-enforcement officials in the small Massachusetts port town of Fairhaven tailed a tractor-trailer to Mullen's wharf earlier this month. As they watched, a 71-ft. fishing boat called Tiki X unloaded its cargo: 30 tons of pot. By dawn's light, police had arrested 26 men; all were later charged with drug trafficking and conspiracy to violate state narcotics laws. The next morning, about 400 miles southeast of Cape Cod, a Coast Guard cutter intercepted the Biscayne Freeze, a 240-ft. freighter registered in Panama. After firing five rounds...
...favors Iranian manpower over Iraqi firepower, they claim to have captured 210 sq. mi. of territory, killing 6,100 Iraqi defenders and taking 3,400 prisoners. The attackers penetrated three to six miles into Iraq, seizing positions within shelling range of a strategically important highway linking Baghdad to the port of Basra, 280 miles to the south...
Wilson said that the department had received complaints about conditions in the jail at Biloxi and another county jail in Gult port, Miss, and began its investigation in September...
...daring night flight across the Baltic Sea the day before the funeral in Nowa Huta, 15 adults and five children defected to Sweden in a single-engine biplane used for crop dusting. After taking off from a rural airport near the Baltic port city of Szczecin, the pilot managed to avoid detection by turning off his lights and flying at an altitude of about 300 ft. Explained the happy but exhausted Poles after a safe landing near the city of Malmo: "We are all Solidarity members. That is why we fled." Most others had no choice but to express their...