Word: port
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Port. at Golden...
Gadzinski, 31, got his nickname because he plays the instrument with symphony orchestras and aboard ship. Dryfuse, 24, got hers after a port call when her male squadron mates discovered she took kidding well, snapping out comebacks that would make comedian Roseanne blush...
...this week the Eisenhower arrives at its home port in Norfolk, Virginia, completing a historic six-month cruise with the first group of women to serve on a combat ship. The results of the experiment have been eagerly awaited. Before the ship even began sea trials last summer, the Navy's macho diehards spread dark warnings that women, ordered on board by the U.S. Congress, wouldn't perform as well as men on the nuclear-powered carrier. Mixing the sexes in cramped quarters for so long, some critics argued, would turn the Ike into a Love Boat. The camaraderie...
...Port. at San Antonio...
President Clinton traveled with U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince to oversee the transfer of authority for the country's security from American troops to a U.N. peacekeeping force. But what should have been a foreign-policy triumph for the Administration was marred by the assassination three days earlier of a leading opponent of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's--and suspicions that a Cabinet-level Haitian minister was linked...