Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prevent the Solidarity supporters from coordinating activities with other groups across Poland, the generals quickly cut telephone and telex lines to the troubled port. Convoys of police and ZOMO, the paramilitary police force, roared into Gdansk, turning the city into an armed camp. When the strikes stretched on for two days, riot police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse crowds that gathered on the square outside the shipyard. As flames lighted the night sky, police battled youths who blockaded streets with bonfires and trash cans...
MUSKO TOP-SECRET NAVAL BASE, Sweden--It's anything but a secret these days that the Swedes are unhappy about reports of foreign submarines cruising casually in and out of their nation's best protected military port...
Meanwhile, new information has become available on the discovery of the latest sub-surface invasion. A Swedish fisherman claimed to have first sighted a foreign vessel in the Musko port nearly four weeks ago, days before the navy began its fruitless depth-charge barrage and sonar search...
...Though the pipeline has been plagued by financing problems and construction start-up delays, it is seen by industry experts as an important complement to the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, which carries 1.5 million bbl. of crude oil per day from Prudhoe Bay on the Beaufort Sea to the port of Valdez, 800 miles to the south. All together, the entire gas-pipeline network is aimed at ensuring adequate fuel supplies for industrial and home-heating use until the turn of the century and beyond...
...strike-insurance policy in July (premiums: $12,000). That should about cover a season's losses in parking fees and concession sales. In San Francisco, Mayor Dianne Feinstein said, "We lose a lot more [than money] in terms of the momentum of pride and sup port for the team." James Trutko of the Cleveland Growth Association mourned the lost opportunity to "show Cleveland off to the nation Monday night," when the Browns would have hosted the Cincinnati Bengals. "You can't buy that kind of television time," he sighed...