Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Commercially, the city is fast regaining its old hustle. Rubble has been cleared from most streets; with it went a noxious haze that had shrouded the city. Cement mixers rather than armored vehicles, rumble through the streets. The port has been restored to 50% of prewar capacity and once again trucks rattle off the piers and up the winding mountain roads toward delivery points throughout the Persian Gulf. Beirut's airport, the busiest in the Arab world (400 weekly flights) before it was shut down by artillery fire, has reopened and handles about 75% of its old traffic volume...
Even by modest estimates, some $5 billion will be required for full recovery in Lebanon, and such funds have been slow in coming. The first-step port reconstruction was financed by a $69 million U.S. grant. Lebanon's Arab neighbors, who bankrolled much of the fighting, have chosen to underwrite a far lesser share of the bill for peace. "The money in hand is a few swallows," an official told TIME Correspondent Dean Brelis. "It doesn't make a spring...
...Lebanon, whom they blame for starting the war. As a hedge against any new outbreak of hostilities, the Christians have taken complete control of east Beirut and almost all of northern Lebanon where they are busy installing the infrastructure for a separate state including improvements in the deep-water port at Jounieh and a $25 million airport at Hamat-all with the active assistance of Israel In the deep south, Christian forces with Israeli troops at their side have been challenging the Palestinian presence along the Lebanon-Israel border Says Pierre Gemayel, 72, charismatic leader of the Phalange, the strongest...
...Jamaicans seem to enjoy their stint at Bolton. For Trevor Brown, 20, a native of Portland, Jamaica, apple picking has been a steady and therefore welcome source of income for the past four years. At home, Brown guides tourists on a bamboo raft down the Rio Grande near Port Antonio, earning as much as $35 a day. But the tourist trade is unpredictable, so in the slack fall season he flies to Miami and from there travels by bus to New England, where he can make up to $50 a day picking apples. Wilbert Hutchinson, 28, a truck farmer back...
...from the rest and he could not have tea with other players afterward. Woods won the championship He may not leave the town limits of East London (50 square miles) during his ban and is therefore forbidden to play a chess match in East London's sister city, Port Elizabeth If he and his wife go to a restaurant, a friend may stop to say hello but may not sit down: that would constitute a meeting with more than one person since his wife is considered another person when friends are present...