Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three hutlike wooden crates on Le Havre's Quai de Moselle last week looked unremarkable. But when they were finally winched aboard the French freighter Borodine for a five-day trip to the Soviet port of Riga, they caused an immediate intensification of the long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through...
...ships were just offshore, riding at anchor, gray silhouettes of power in a classic setting of blue sky, bright sunshine and white clouds. At daybreak on Wednesday morning last week, precisely on time, 800 U.S. Marines landed at Beirut Port. Their mission: to assist, with 800 French and 500 Italian troops, in the task of evacuating 7,000 Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas from the Lebanese capital. After the Marines landed, they soon had the situation well in hand. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes the next morning: "Everything is going according to plan...
...Marines who disembarked in Beirut quickly took over the port area from the French units that had been there since the previous Saturday. First ashore was the flag-bearer, Lance Corporal James Dunaway, of Hattiesburg, Miss., followed by 200 men of Company E of the 32nd Marine Amphibious Unit. A Marine emblem pinned to his shirt, U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had negotiated the agreement between Israel and the P.L.O. that led to the Palestinians' withdrawal, stepped forward to greet Marine Colonel James Mead, commander of the volunteer force...
...because we are here as peace keepers." He added, "Obviously, we'll use whatever we have in the unlikely event that we must defend ourselves. I must defend myself and my men." Mead was also greeted by Colonel Souhail Darghouth, commander of the Lebanese army units in the port area. "Ahlan wa sahlan, "said the Lebanese colonel. Habib, who has known a smattering of Arabic since his childhood, told Mead, "It means you are welcome here...
Nonetheless, the celebrations continued. When a shipload of guerrillas reached the Syrian port of Tartus, they were greeted by shouts of "Victory!" and "Palestine!" Five sheep were slaughtered on the dock and skinned to provide a carpet for the visitors to walk upon as they came ashore. When a four-year-old Palestinian boy in Beirut asked his father, "Why is everybody shooting?" he was told, "To celebrate a great victory." To which the boy replied, "But if the soldiers won, why are they going?" The answer, only partly obscured by the fanfare of the occasion, was that they...