Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Port-au-Prince, Haiti...
While other installations shrink or disappear, the San Diego Navy Base will expand. It will become in fact the largest U.S. Navy port, reflecting the Pentagon's decision to locate on the Pacific Coast the nation's prime naval facilities. Thirty-one ships will be transferred to San Diego, bringing along 12,000 crewmen and adding as much as $100 million a year to the Navy payroll. Last year the Navy contributed $1.2 billion to the economy of the San Diego area. The expansion is expected to add $56.5 million a year in retail sales alone; some...
...lead ship in a convoy that had to run a gauntlet of Communist gunfire to reach the encircled Cambodian capital. Normally, such ships−manned by Chinese crews that get large, unspecified war bonuses to do the work−set out every ten days from the South Vietnamese port of Vung Tau with cargoes of machinery, machine parts and fuel. The latest convoy, however, was delayed two weeks while U.S. bombers tried to clear a passage through Communist gunners along the Mekong riverbanks...
Senior co-captains Gene LeBarre and Bill Mahoney return to the port side this year while junior Dave Fellows is back on the starboard side, and Dave Weinberg will steer for the second time...
...provincial capital of Takeo had been lost. More important, the Communists had severed, for the moment at least, the vital Mekong River supply route from South Viet Nam. A convoy of about a dozen ships, already ten days overdue in the Cambodian capital, was delayed in the Vietnamese port of Vung Tau while the Cambodian armed forces and U.S. bombers tried to clear the riverbanks of enemy rocket launchers...