Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minister David Lange during a one-day stopover in Los Angeles. Replied a testy U.S. State Department official: "If they deny access to our ships, they are not performing as a responsible ally." The simmering dispute between New Zealand and Washington over the Prime Minister's refusal to allow port calls by U.S. nuclear-powered or nuclear-equipped vessels heated up last week as Lange visited first the U.S. and then Britain...
...thing to do is to get off at exit 1 in Sandwich and head down the ramp to Route 6A. Possibly one of the most beautiful little highways in the country, 6A is the North Side's main street, wandering through Sandwich and West Barnstable and Barnstable through Yarmouth Port, Dennis and Brewster. In comparison to the deadly-dull rows of afflicted pine trees along the mid-Cape, as Route 6 is known down there 6A will lead you through cranberry bogs and antique stores and quaint village squares. It may take you another 20 minutes to get where...
...British leader continued to act like a personal cheerleader for the President at her final press conference. Thatcher expressed her displeasure at New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange's decision a month ago to refuse port access to U.S. ships that might be carrying nuclear weapons. Lange's announcement has prompted the Reagan Administration to review its ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) defense pact for the southern Pacific. Thatcher announced that for security reasons, Great Britain, like the U.S., would continue to refuse to say whether its ships entering New Zealand ports carried nuclear weapons. "I hope (New Zealanders) would...
...strength at the polls was drawn not from the ruling party but from another opposition group, the Democratic Korea Party, which gained 81 seats in the 1981 elections but only 35 this time. N.K.D.P. support was particularly strong in Seoul (pop. 9 million), the capital, and the southern port city of Pusan (pop. 2.5 million...
Military observers in Thailand confirm that the Khmer Rouge are active inside Kampuchea: they have been interdicting communications lines to the point where international relief workers warn against ferrying food and equipment along the two main roads connecting Kampuchea's major port, Kompong Som, with Phnom Penh. The train linking Phnom Penh and the western city of Battambang rarely runs: the guerrillas have attacked it too often...