Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying through cloud-laden skies that signaled the approaching monsoons, Navy attack planes from the carriers Oriskany and Coral Sea rained bombs and missiles for the first time on the port of Cam Pha, which is only 46 miles northeast of Haiphong and serves as its auxiliary port. Under congressional pressure to hit North Viet Nam harder, President Johnson gave the go-ahead to bomb Cam Pha when no ships were at the piers, thus seeking to avoid hitting any Russian vessels. After Navy scouts found the right moment, the raiders demolished Cam Pha's wharves, badly damaged...
...conquerors, to whom true peace seems as distant as ever. Jordanian and Egyptian troops fired on Israeli border positions five times last week. During one skirmish at the mouth of the Suez Canal, the irritated Israelis finally wheeled up tanks and mortars and bombarded the Egyptian resort town of Port Tewfic, killing 44 and wounding 170 others. Two days later, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol flew to the Suez battlefront and told his troops that "we must be on our guard and hold the positions and frontiers that our forces have reached." Said Eshkol bluntly, "There is no better border than...
...strong were the Massilians and the fortifications they built that not until Caesar laid extended siege to Massilia in 49 B.C. did the city's streets clink to the armor of invaders. Subsequently Romanized, then later buried for centuries beneath the foundations of what became the port of Marseille, the fortifications were unearthed this summer when contractors began excavations for three high-rise commercial buildings, a cultural center and a 2,000-car underground garage on vacant land behind the city's bourse (stock exchange). Almost immediately, the ramparts became the objective of a new civil conflict that...
Stolen Sample. Much of the exporting begins by rail. Shipments go to friendly Portuguese Mozambique and its port of Beira. Since the rail lines from Malawi also run to Beira, outgoing Rhodesian goods are simply provided with Malawian or Mozambican certificates of origin before being loaded aboard ship. To show how brazen the practice getting around the U.N. rules has become, the Sunday Times reprints a Mozambique certification for 4,500 Ibs. of corned beef-a profitable product that the Portuguese colony does not manufacture...
...British company of Turner & Newall, which produces most of Rhodesia's asbestos, had a vision of things to come. So it prepared for future problems by setting up a South African subsidiary called Southern Asbestos. Although the mineral still moves straight from Rhodesian mines to a Mozambique port without ever going through South Africa, the company simply supplies each shipment with a South African certificate of origin. Outgoing chrome is usually labeled South African as well and is bought in large quantities by the Japanese. Not long ago, says the Sunday Times, 20,000 tons of chrome ore arrived...