Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...risk of assassination. Another report was that Joan, who has been living in Boston apart from her husband and has undergone treatment for alcoholism, might strenuously object to any new public attention being forced on their relationship. Kennedy, however, attended his wife's 43rd birthday party in Hyannis Port on Labor Day weekend, and there suddenly were reports of a possible reconciliation...
...there was a tone of urgency in his appeals for progress in the stalemated negotiations on autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Sadat underscored the theme as soon as his glistening white yacht el-Houriya (Freedom) docked at Haifa port. After receiving a 21-gun salute and watching a fly-over by ten Israeli Kfir jet fighters, Sadat expressed his determination "to spread the umbrella of peace to include the Palestinian people," adding: "This is a moral commitment to which we will remain faithful at all tunes...
...several times a year he flies to Belem on Brazil's northern coast, traveling economy class except when he can hitch a free ride on a friend's corporate jet. At Belem he waits for the Fairchild turboprop that makes the 90-min. flight daily between the port city and Jari. Disdaining VIP treatment, Ludwig crowds on board with newly recruited laborers, technicians returning from a few days of whooping it up in Belem and families coming back from shopping trips...
...days after Godunov's defection, a group of eight grim-visaged Soviet diplomats and police agents escorted Vlasova up the ramp of the Aeroflot jet. As the plane readied for takeoff, Port Authority police cars raced out onto the tarmac and slammed to a stop in front of the Soviet aircraft. Acting Secretary of State Warren Christopher had ordered the flight halted to determine whether Vlasova was leaving of her own accord...
With uniformed police, plainclothesmen and Port Authority officials surrounding the plane, Donald McHenry, Deputy U.S. Ambassador at the U.N., and a team of State Department and Immigration and Naturalization officials sought permission to question Vlasova. Soviet U.N. Ambassador Yevgeni Makeyev refused to allow the beleaguered ballerina off the aircraft. But on two occasions, two State Department officials were permitted aboard the plane, where they talked with Vlasova. Dressed in a snappy black jumpsuit, the dancer said she indeed desired to return home. "I love my husband. But he has made his decision to stay here, while I have made mine...