Word: port
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...magazine’s launch party last Thursday evening went down more smoothly than a fine Port. While some came for the more generic fare, as hordes descended upon pizza and sushi, there was also filet mignon for the connoisseurs. But regardless of taste, gourmands were united by a love of food, and even more, by a love of getting away from dining halls...
...Britain and France discussed closer cooperation between their navies and a possible carving up of deployment zones for their nuclear-armed submarine patrols. It took until September 2000 for arrangements to be formalized, in what was named the U.K.-French Bilateral Defense Cooperation Agreement. That called for port visits for British and French nuclear-armed submarines and regular exchanges on nuclear policy. (See pictures of the French President visiting...
...Unconventional methods were used by both antiquity's weak and strong. In 332 B.C., the citizens of the doomed port of Tyre catapulted basins of burning sand at Alexander the Great's advancing army. Falling from the sky, the sand, says Mayor, "would have had the same ghastly effect as white phosphorus," the chemical agent allegedly used during Israel's recent bombardment of Gaza, not far to the south of ancient Tyre. A Chinese ruler in A.D. 178 put down a peasant revolt by encircling the rebels with chariots heaped with limestone powder. Accompanied by a cacophonous troupe of drummers...
...Pakistan's investigation found that the Mumbai gunmen had departed the Pakistani port city of Karachi aboard three inflatable boats. With the help of telephone and bank-transfer records, investigators were able to trace a recovered engine from one of the vessels to a shop in Karachi belonging to Hammad Amin Sadiq. The shopkeeper - ambiguously described by Malik as "the main operator" - was arrested. From his interrogation, the authorities were able to apprehend three other suspects at two hideouts, one in Karachi, the other two hours away...
...Arab leadership generally opposes the state being defined on Jewish lines, instead demanding that it treat all citizens as equals. For Lieberman, the last straw was the opposition expressed by Israeli Arabs to the military campaign in Gaza. But Hannah Safran, a protester outside a Lieberman rally in the port town of Haifa, which has many Arabs, says, "Many of our politicians are racist against Arabs, but didn't dare speak it aloud. But Lieberman does. It's what we get for years of saying that we had nobody to talk to among the Arabs for peace...