Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Armada Comyn, 61, King Juan Carlos' longtime military tutor; Lieut. General Jaime Milans del Bosch, 66, who declared martial law in Valencia on the night of the coup; and Major General Luis Torres Rojas, 62, who is accused of trying to enlist a Madrid-based division to sup port the attempt. If found guilty, they face sentences of up to 30 years...
...effort to track down the rumors about Soviet agents operating in the southeast began in Chah Bahar, an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman commanding the approaches to the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The mysterious new tower that had been spotted near the town turned out to be no Soviet listening post. What had been mistaken for a spy installation was, in fact, a powerful 1,200-kilo-watt radio transmitter set up by the Iranian government to foment Islamic revolution abroad. Broadcasting in a dozen languages, the transmitter has been beaming subversive broadcasts to the Indian subcontinent...
...Ocean Ranger's 84-man crew, which included at least 14 Americans, a Soviet freighter 65 miles east of the rig radioed that it was taking on water and listing badly. Before dawn Tuesday, the 4,262-ton Mikhanik Tarasov-bound from the St. Lawrence River port of Trois Rivières to Leningrad with a load of newsprint-slipped beneath the waves, taking all but five of its 37-man crew to their deaths. By week's end 40 bodies had been recovered from both vessels, and all aboard the Ocean Ranger were presumed dead...
...sullen calm seems to hang over Gdansk. But beneath the surface, a dangerous and defiant mood can be seen in underground leaflets, posters and graffiti. Said one message chalked on a metal door in the port of Gdynia, near Gdansk: THE WINTER IS YOURS- THE SPRING WILL BE OURS. Seeking to dampen Gdansk's rebellious spirit, authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs...
...Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, visited the Middle East last week, carrying with him a sheaf of proposals aimed at strengthening Washington's ties with moderate Arab states. His main port of call was Saudi Arabia, where he spent four days in talks with the influential Crown Prince Fahd, Defense Minister Prince Sultan and Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. By the time Weinberger left the country, after a negotiating session that lasted almost all night, the principal mystery was why it had taken him and the Saudis so long to agree to so little...