Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...released Soviet sub heads for port and hard questions...
...down the channel it had navigated on its own ten days before. Finally it cast off. Then, joining the flotilla of naval vessels hovering anxiously beyond the twelve-nautical-mi. limit, Soviet "Whiskey"-class submarine No. 137 headed for its home base at Baltiysk, near the port of Kaliningrad. So ended, peacefully enough, the diplomatic uproar that began when Sweden discovered the sub on a reef in a restricted military zone only nine miles from Karlskrona, an ultrasensitive naval base on the Baltic Sea. The incursion of the sub, said Prime Minister Thorbjorn Falldin last week, was "the most flagrant...
Normally, a submarine crew, weary of tight quarters, cannot wait to get back to home port. But as Commander Gushin and his crew headed out to sea last week, the voyage of 200 miles to Baltiysk and the waiting Soviet interrogators must have seemed far, far too short...
...with food, water and cooking utensils, and then towed La Nativité out to sea - and toward Florida. The catastrophe off Hillsboro Beach occurred just three weeks after the Reagan Administration had begun a policy of intercepting boatloads of refugees headed for the U.S. and escorting them back to Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The U.S. considers Haitians to be fleeing their country to escape poverty, not repression, and thus not eligible for admission as political refugees...
...wailing once again as millions of workers dropped their tools for an hour to protest a worsening food shortage and the harassment of Solidarity union members. Workers wearing red-and-white armbands clustered at factory gates, shop fronts and mine entrances under a cold fall drizzle. In the Baltic port city of Gdansk, where Solidarity was born 14 months ago, hundreds of men and women gathered at the Lenin Shipyard and draped its gate with flowers. In heavily industrialized Silesia, brawny metalworkers stood idle in the shadow of towering steel-mill chimneys. In Warsaw, flag-draped buses and tramways came...