Word: ported
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bereted "Squad 16," the Americans boarded Pan American and Middle East Airlines charter jets, soon were winging for Rome, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Ankara, and Nicosia on Cyprus. Others made it aboard the American Export Isbrandtsen freighter Exilona for a leisurely, sun-drenched cruise to the Cypriot port of Famagusta...
...Kattegat. Further, after implicitly endorsing Nasser's denial of the freedom of navigation, the Russians found themselves in the position of protesting that the U.S. had been guilty of the very same thing. Complaining that American planes had bombed a Russian ship berthed in a North Vietnamese port 50 miles up the coast from Haiphong-a charge denied by the Defense Department-Moscow formally accused the U.S. of "flagrant violation of the freedom of navigation...
...keeping a gyroscopically-controlled mirror pointed directly at Venus through a port in the plane's roof the scientists were able to deflect the planet's reflected light continuously for more than an hour into the telescope, which was mounted horizontally inside the plane. During this time, they obtained 2,000 separate patterns of Venusian light on an interferometer-a device that splits a beam of light, sends each half along a path of different length, and then rejoins them in an interference pattern of light and dark fringes. Computer analysis and averaging of these patterns by scientists...
...only bombed Hanoi and vicinity several times recently by day and night, but regularly streak overhead on the way to other targets, forcing the Communist leaders to take shelter like the rest of the citizenry. Just as sleep-killing as the dramatic raids over and around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong, however, is the steady stream of information that flows into Hanoi about the more routine daily destruction wreaked by U.S. planes on practically anything that moves or looks important in North Viet Nam. Last week U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and carrier-based Navy planes flew...
...number have been lost in the war, Russia obviously is providing new planes to make up for at least part of the losses. U.S. intelligence is divided on the means used to get them to Hanoi. Most likely: either by train through Red China or by sea through the port of Haiphong. However they come, though, their life expectancy, once in the air, is very short...