Word: port
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...killing 37 passengers. That action is generally recognized as the incident that sparked the civil war. The present government of "national unity," set up last year under Syrian aegis, is virtually powerless, and the country continues to be beset by sectarian fighting, most seriously last week around the southern port city of Sidon. There, for the third week in a row, Christian militiamen battled Muslim units of the Lebanese Army and Muslim irregulars...
Dershowitz was not involved in the much-bally hooed, five-week 1982 trial, when Von Bulow was convicted of attempting to kill his wife, Pittsburgh utilities heiress and New port socialite Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, by injecting her with insulin injections...
...prosecution successfully that in 1979 and 1980 von Bulow tried to made, his wife in the New port mansion because he wanted to collect her 14 million inheritance-and because he had fallen in love with a soap opera star who reportedly told von Bulov that he would have to choose "either...
...more than 100 U.S. refineries have ceased operating since 1981. Additional closings are expected. Texaco is shutting down its 65,000-bbl.-a-day plant in Lawrenceville, Ill., and a 20,000-bbl.-a-day operation in Amarillo, Texas. Since September, the company has halved the capacity of its Port Arthur, Texas, refinery...
...chance to vent their anger. Here and there, buildings smoldered, streets were barricaded. Less than a week earlier, 25 years to the day after the Sharpeville massacre of 69 black South Africans by security forces, the police had gunned down 19 black demonstrators near Uitenhage, 20 miles from Port Elizabeth, the Eastern Cape's largest city...