Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...return to our point of departure, I was leaving New York to visit a friend at Princeton and I had it all fastidiously planned. Get on the subway at 10 a.m.; get on 11 a.m. bus out of Port Authority Bus Terminal; get to Princeton by noon, bop around for a few hours and meet my friend at 3. Yeah, tell me about it. The NYC subways being the NYC subways, I got to Port Authority at 11:30, about 10 minutes before another bus (on a different bus line) was schedule to leave. Not too bad, I would only...
...ancestral home), a bus ride to yet another close friend, this one in Washington, the bus ride back to New York--passed without major incident. Well, almost. I had planned to take an early bus back from Washington on Sunday morning, meeting one of my Harvard friends at Port Authority (this time fastidiously avoiding all religious freaks and bums and whatevers), there to get on a Boston-bound bus after lunch to return to school...
...arrive in New York at 12:30. I had successfully completed the first few steps of the program and was confortably ensconsed on the Greyhound when the driver said (at least this one used the P.A. system), "Ten o'clock to New York, arriving Port Authority at 2:20. No smoking...
...meantime, commandos were attacking the southern Lebanese coastline. Missile boats strafed the port of Tyre, and air force planes bombed the Palestinian strongholds at Damur, Tyre and Ouzai. Frogmen landed at several points along the coast and attacked Palestinian command posts, killing several officials. In most cases, however, the Palestinian leadership had already left. In Beirut, top P.L.O. leaders had learned...
...building hit by Israeli bombs. Palestinians and Lebanese dug through rubble in search of bodies. The bombardment seemed to have been indiscriminate, both from the air and from ships offshore. Except for one Palestinian antiaircraft gun on the outskirts of town, no military targets had been hit. The port remained undamaged. What had been hit, and hard, was the civilian dwellings. Was this deliberate counterterror on the part of the Israelis? It certainly looked that...