Word: port
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week, both countries continued to accuse each other of preparing for outright warfare. The U.S. claimed that it had sighted six Soviet ships laden with arms and bound for Nicaragua. Perhaps chastened by mistaken allegations last month that Soviet MiG-21 fighter planes were being unloaded in the Nicaraguan port of Corinto, the Administration did not commit itself to specifying what arms the ships were carrying. But President Reagan warned again last week that if sophisticated Soviet aircraft are sent to Central America, "this is something we cannot sit back and just take...
Relief agencies tried to rush food to the starving country by diverting grain shipments from other destinations. The World Food Program rerouted a freighter carrying 28,000 metric tons of grain to an Ethiopian port. Even so, the ship will not arrive until Dec. 12. Another vessel, carrying 10,000 metric tons of U.S. Government-donated grain to India, changed course and headed for the beleaguered country. In all, 80,000 metric tons of food were bound for Ethiopia last week. Yet even that was far from adequate. The Ethiopian government estimates that 1.2 million metric tons of grain will...
...keep costs down, students can sleep or take meals on the ship while in port, but most prefer to explore the ports and sleep in hostels, hotels or homes, said Mintz...
...professors teach general concepts, as they would in a land-based classroom, but they also focus the discussion on subjects relavant to the next port of call, according to Tymitz...
...courses are not as challenging as Harvard's, but were interesting in that they were geared around what we were seeing in port," said Mintz...