Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington's Dulles International Airport for a year and a half, but New York had been closed to the plane under the pressure of local civic groups and politicians, who argued it was too noisy. The last barrier fell Oct. 17 when the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Port Authority's request to extend...
Israeli diplomats have insisted on maintaining a military presence at Sharm el Sheikh as a way of guaranteeing that ships will have unhindered access through the Gulf of Aqaba to the port of Eilat. Egypt would lease to Israel Sharm el Sheikh and an access road along the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for a stated period-perhaps 20 years. An alternative is to place a U.N. force at Sharm el Sheikh and give Israel inspection rights. Most experts agree that Israel's stated strategic concern about the Aqaba Gulf is irrelevant. Whether cargoes get through...
...classic V sign. At their old headquarters building in the commercial and student section of Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after an unsuccessful try in 1974; and Lady Amalia Fleming, widow of penicillin's discoverer, a bacteriologist and a political prisoner under the junta...
...swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were affected, including 200,000 acres of rice ready for harvesting...
Among the questions still to be answered: Why did the police at Port Elizabeth fail to tell the examining doctors that Biko had suffered a head bump? Why did the doctors fail to diagnose the brain injury, even though they all noticed that Biko was incoherent? Why was a dying man subjected to a 14½-hour road trip to Pretoria? And what ever happened to the story that he had been on a hunger strike...