Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more ways than not, Perez's legacy dominates Plaquemines, an anachronism in the South and an affront to Southerners who like to think that racism has migrated North. Parish-owned Port Sulphur Hospital has segregated waiting rooms. There are two hurricane evacuation plans-one for whites and another for blacks. Joycelyn Mackey, a 29-year-old black, found that out during a hurricane threat in 1975 when she was refused admission to the refugee center at Belle Chasse School and sent to a nearby U.S. Navy station. There are even two bookmobiles, each serving primarily...
...effort is most likely to founder over the future of Walvis Bay, Namibia's principal port (see box). Pretoria wants to trade the harbor for a cooperative attitude from the new Namibian regime after it takes power. SWAPO insists that Walvis Bay, through which 90% of the territory's international trade passes, must become part of Namibia...
...more seriously about us," So says J.J.J. Wilken, the town clerk and unofficial historian of the 374-sq.-mi. territory of Walvis Bay. Until international attention focused on independence for Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch and German descent, 4,000 "coloreds," and 11,000 blacks, most of them migrant workers from other parts...
Envisioning its enclave as a potential Hong Kong of Africa, Walvis Bay's town council has repeatedly petitioned the South African government to make the territory a free port. But Pretoria is more concerned with the area's strategic importance. Walvis Bay is the only deep-water port on the 1,000-mile Namibian coast. As a consequence, the worst South African fear is that a SWAPO-dominated government in Windhoek might allow the Soviets to set up a naval base there...
...other port is reserved for the Soyuz ferry craft that brought Kovalenok and Ivanchenkov to Salyut and will eventually return them to earth...