Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Poland's ill-fated democratic experiment had a capital city, it was surely the Baltic port of Gdansk. Solidarity, the independent trade union, was born in the city's sprawling Lenin shipyard in August 1980. When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed that movement last Dec. 13, it died hardest in Gdansk. Three days after martial law was declared, protesters there engaged security forces in pitched battles that, according to the government, left at least nine civilians dead. Gdansk continues to resist. The government announced last week that new street clashes near the Lenin shipyard had ended...
Sharon has been pressing for just such an attack for several weeks. In mid-January, he met with Bashir Gemayel, commander of Christian Phalange forces in Lebanon, aboard an Israeli gunboat off Jounieh, a port city north of Beirut. The main subject: coordination of efforts between Israelis and Phalangists, in the event of an invasion that would bring Israeli forces as far north as the edge of Beirut International Airport. Such a penetration could also bring the Israelis into direct contact with the forces of Syria, whom many Israelis regard as the ultimate enemy of the Jewish state. What...
...March of Dimes will honor its founder with a dinner in Washington. The Democratic National Committee will stage a fund raiser in New York. So will a gaggle of other organizations, ranging from the Indiana Democrats to the port of Oakland...
...worth of Government building. He refused, he said, "to hire grown men to chase tumbleweeds on windy days." In six years Ickes spent $6 billion and created, among other things, New York's Triborough Bridge, the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River, the Chicago sewage system, the port facilities of Brownsville, Texas, and 70% of the nation's new schools...
...vast fortune in shipping, mining and real estate, did not fail for lack of trying. In vast stretches of virtually unpopulated jungle, he built a string of airstrips, thousands of miles of roads traveled by hundreds of cars and trucks, a private railway to haul freight, a deep-water port, a hospital, a school and a giant service depot stocked with spare parts and equipment. Jari's capital, Monte Dourado (pop. 35,000), is a sprawling community of neat bungalows, town houses and apartments...