Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Port Charlotte, Fla., the largest of General Development's eight second-home or retirement projects, covers 120,000 acres of flat scrubland, inhabited largely by retirees recruited up North. Features include a 180-bed hospital, 30 doctors, twelve dentists and three pharmacies. But some of the streets are cracking and others were flooded last summer...
...from La Moneda," he told her. "The situation has become very grave. The navy has revolted and I am going to stay here." Allende was right. Even before the junta's troops surrounded the palace, the navy had announced that it had taken over and sealed off the port city of Valparaiso, 75 miles away. Marines from Valparaiso were advancing on the capital to join the soldiers, airmen and carabineros commanded by leaders of the coup...
Patrolling in leisurely fashion off the Syrian coast near the port of Tartus last week, the two Israeli reconnaissance jets looked deceptively vulnerable. They were, after all, 125 nautical miles from the nearest Israeli border. But when alert Syrian MiG-21s moved in for the kill, the sitting ducks turned out to be seductive decoys. Israeli Phantoms and Mirages flying cover high overhead in the partly overcast skies pounced on the Syrian planes. In what was by far the biggest air battle in the Middle East since the 1967 Six-Day War, 13 Syrian MIGS were downed and one Israeli...
...current outbreak began late last month in Naples, where it afflicted 94 victims and killed at least ten. Cases of cholera cropped up in the Adriatic port of Bari. The disease erupted in Rome, and finally leaped the Tyrrhenian Sea to Sardinia. By week's end, cases had been reported in Florence and as far north as Bologna and Milan...
Another Boycott. At the heart of Chavez's weakness is a changed public attitude toward him and his crusade for the Chicano farm workers. In the late 1960s, la causa not only won the sup port of most Mexican Americans, but it also became a favorite issue among believers in good works. Urged on by national figures like Senator Robert F. Kennedy, conscience-troubled housewives across the country boycotted grapes - and pressured growers into negotiating contracts with the U.F.W. But now, the public seems to have grown tired of causes. Today, few housewives even know that Chavez has called...