Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reaches a raft and decides, Crusoe-like, "to make an inventory of my belongings." These include a wristwatch, some keys, three business cards from a store in Mobile and no food or water. He guesses that he is some 50 miles from his home port and will be rescued in two or three hours, but still worries, "It seemed an extraordinarily long time to be alone at sea." Ten days later, having swallowed seawater and a few pickings of raw fish, he lands with a cargo of extraordinary impressions...
...Pentagon officially declined comment on the position of the Navy ships. But officials who requested anonymity said the carrier Coral Sea--its orders to return home canceled--had departed port in Malaga, Spain, early yesterday...
...carrier left its home port of Norfolk, Va., on October...
Instead of departing Malaga, however, the Coral Sea was unexpectedly ordered to remain in port and at least temporarily to scrap its plans for a return home...
...carrier America, meantime, left the port of Livorno, Italy, as scheduled yesterday. But that ship has been told to remain under way at sea instead of heading toward a second port call in France, the sources said...