Word: port
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...National Security Council briefing in the Oval Office, McFarlane reviewed with the President what the U.S. could and should do. As usual, the options seemed pitifully few. U.S. and Italian ships and planes were tailing the Achille Lauro as it wandered across the eastern Mediterranean, headed toward the Syrian port of Tartus. The U.S. immediately established contact with the other governments principally involved: Italy, Egypt, Israel. To each, Washington gave the same message: American policy toward terrorism, as always, was not to give an inch. At most, the U.S. would sanction what it called "discussions" with the terrorists...
Surprisingly, the U.S. ploy worked. When the Achille Lauro tried to enter Syrian waters near Tartus, the Syrians turned it away. Cyprus also refused to allow the ship into port. Said a senior U.S. diplomat in Washington: "Everyone had been sensitized. It wasn't so much a matter of U.S. pressure as the fact that no one wanted these pirates on their hands." The Achille Lauro had little choice but to turn back toward Egypt's Port Said...
...port: a starboard sweep rows with his or her left hand on the end of the oar handle...
starboard: a port sweep rows with his or her right hand on the end of the oar handle...
Botha was scalded by the poor reviews. "More than any other national leader, I went out of my way to create an attitude of justice toward other groups," he said to party members in Port Elizabeth two days after the speech. "There is no sign of any appreciation for this spirit of justice." Paradoxically, both statements are true. Botha has been more of a reformer than any of his predecessors: he has eliminated such petty indignities of apartheid as bans on marriage and sex across the color line, and he has introduced a tricameral legislature that gives limited powers...