Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scored the game-winner--which broke a 9-9 deadlock--with 4:21 remaining in the final period. Basile's goal followed a well-executed Navy rush up the entire length of the field and helped save the Midshipmen from drowning in the comeback waters of the Crimson's port of call...
Like military commanders following a major war, radical survivors of the embattled 1960s have been emerging from their bunkers to tell it like it really was. The latest is Tom Hayden, 48, who rose to New Left prominence as the drafter of the 1962 Port Huron Statement, the Magna Charta of the Students for a Democratic Society. Hayden appears to have been something of a crisis junkie, getting adrenaline fixes in confrontations with authority's billy clubs and tear-gas canisters in the Mississippi Delta and Newark, at Columbia and Berkeley. He acquired national notoriety as a demonstration leader...
...posturing -- New York police, at one point, become the "expected forces of the military- industrial complex" -- should find his account of the Chicago convention and trial fast paced and diverting. There is also a moving, elegiac coda in which Hayden revisits Mississippi with his ex-wife Casey and tours Port Huron, Mich., in search of the spot where the SDS was born...
...Southeast Asian countries ravaged by the Imperial Army. In the 1960s, admits a Japanese official, "loan aid was primarily aimed at promoting exports and securing raw materials." Only by the 1970s did much of Japan's aid begin to flow into loans and grants for such projects as port facilities in the Philippines, highways in Indonesia and hospitals in Bolivia...
Solidarity chief Lech Walesa vowed to be the "last to leave," as the deadlock continued into the night at the Lenin shipyard in this Baltic port city...