Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before making his appearance at The Game, Massachusetts' senior senator stopped off at the family compound in Hyannis Port for a memorial ceremony...
...this 1982 semi-autobiographical play, Fugard portrays a bitter, perhaps irreparable break between Hallie (Andrew Sullivan), a clever white prep-school student, and the two black men who had become his surrogate family. Placed in a Port Elizabeth tea-room of 1950, the cast captures all of their pain with power and immediacy...
...port call was a symbolic victory for Washington in the diplomatic war of nerves now emerging in the Pacific between the superpowers. The contest began in earnest 15 months ago, when Moscow secured fishing rights to the tuna-rich waters of Kiribati, a tiny 33-island former British colony in the South Pacific. Since then, much has happened to heighten Washington's jitters. Last June, Vanuatu, formerly the British-French territory of New Hebrides, opened diplomatic relations with Moscow, following the lead of Fiji and three other Pacific island states. Vanuatu is currently negotiating a pact with the Soviets that...
...wider reach. Last June the Kremlin created a new bureau within the Foreign Ministry, the so-called Pacific Ocean Department, and began dispatching high-level trade and goodwill delegations throughout the region. Then on July 28, in a 90-minute address in Vladivostok, the Soviet Union's main Pacific port, General Secretary Gorbachev boldly signaled far larger designs. Reminding his audience that the "greater part of our territory lies east of the Urals, in Asia," Gorbachev mapped out an ambitious Soviet policy that includes extensive diplomatic and economic ties throughout the region, concentrating on China and Japan...
...squares off against a Soviet force that is the largest of Moscow's four naval units. From headquarters in Vladivostok, the Soviet Pacific Fleet covers a 1,200-mile maritime zone that stretches south from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay, the vast airfield-and-port complex developed by the U.S. during the Viet Nam War. The Soviet fleet includes two small aircraft carriers, twelve nuclear-armed cruisers and 180 combat aircraft. On any given day, 25 to 30 Soviet ships are docked at Cam Ranh Bay, just 870 nautical miles from the U.S. bases...