Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knife Slip? It is chiefly Dr. Varga's story. He is ship's doctor of the Ceylon Star, a man who finds the sea a sanctuary and goes ashore as little as possible. Varga's trouble begins when the governor of Port Aarif, a lecherous old tyrant named El Bekkaa, comes aboard and insists that he be treated for an ailment that turns out, on diagnosis, to be cancer...
There is no escaping his duty; Dr. Varga decides to operate. But he finds himself increasingly distracted by: 1) Pamela Vaughan, the good-looking nurse from the British hospital in Port Aarif, and 2) a whole array of El Bekkaa's subjects, who urge him to let his knife slip during the operation...
...help sympathizing with the malcontents, but then, there is his Hippocratic oath. What should he do? Moreover, what should he do about Nurse Vaughan? Nothing works out right for Dr. Varga. He loses both the girl and the patient, and his own brief career in Port Aarif comes to an abrupt end when the governor's bodyguards take after him with silver daggers...
...Japanese used to say that Russian Vladivostok was "a dagger" pointed at their islands (the Siberian port lies 680 airline miles northwest of Tokyo). Since World War II's end, another Russian dagger has been poised, even closer to Japan: the island of Sakhalin (600 miles long, 75 miles wide), separated by only 26 miles of sea from the northernmost main Japanese island, Hokkaido. The lower half of Sakhalin once belonged to Japan; it was turned over to the Russians by one ot Yalta's secret deals...
...broken by the urgent growl of American bulldozers and cement-mixers. De Lattre, in furious haste, was replacing the Beau Geste forts on his northern front with modern concrete bunkers. His main concern: protection of the vital 60-mile road and rail link between Hanoi and the supply port of Haiphong...