Word: ported
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SYRIA. The Soviet aid agreement signed by the Syrians with such fanfare last October ostensibly commits the U.S.S.R. to supply in credits and technical aid about one-third the estimated $600 million cost of 19 specific development projects (among them: oil exploration, port expansion, construction of a dam across the Euphrates). But the agreement also specifies that a separate accord must be negotiated on each project before actual work is begun. The result is that Russia is not legally bound to spend a single ruble on Syrian development. And, in fact, the agreement has not yet netted Syria a single...
...Cambodia's impoverished citizens shun them. Says one Cambodian government spokesman: "I have heard about gift horses, but this one is really an old nag." Last year's U.S. aid to Cambodia: $35 million -part of it for a modern highway and construction of a deep-water port on the Gulf of Thailand...
...Djakarta's moldering port of Tandjong Priok, sweltering Dutch housewives and pathetic clusters of elderly women waited solemnly while customs and immigration officials examined their documents and belongings. The Indonesian officials, long famed as among the most uncooperative and most sullen in the world, were being scrupulously kind and considerate. Javanese maids in batik sarongs wept as they said goodbye to moppets they had reared from infancy. On the Dutch liner Willem Ruys, evacuees were berthed in the ship's lounge and laundry rooms...
...into position. Discreetly, Hammarskjold did not go to Sharm el Sheikh, where Egyptian guns for more than six years barred entry of Israeli ships to the Gulf of Aqaba. Today UNEF soldiers watch as some six vessels a month push up the gulf to unload in the small Israeli port of Elath. But neither the Israelis (who are grateful) nor the Arabs (who do nothing to prevent the traffic) are anxious to call attention to the situation...
Down a good highway, 67 miles south of Tijuana, Ensenada (pop. 35,000) closes Baja California's boom triangle. Shucking off the mañana tradition, Ensenada laborers are working seven days a week to finish a $15 million deepwater port, a $3,500,000 cement factory and acres of new houses. Close to 4,000 workers are employed catching, cleaning and canning plentiful white sea bass, sardines, rock lobsters. A new cannery packs tomatoes and chili peppers grown on farms to the south. White-painted boats chug in and out of the harbor, carrying the guests...