Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reversing a Whitlam ruling, Fraser opened Australian ports to U.S. nuclear-powered warships and also offered docking privileges at a new port being constructed near Perth in Western Australia. Since Australia's own army and relatively small navy are insufficient to guard its 12,210-mile coastline or ensure control of supply lines across the Indian Ocean, Fraser has enthusiastically supported Washington's opening up a new base on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean...
Jerusalem, too, wants to see the Palestinians crushed. Earlier this year, the Israelis began surreptitious shipments of small arms to Jounieh, the Christians' chief port; now the shipments include heavy Soviet-made weapons captured by the Israelis in past wars-among them T-54 tanks, armored personnel carriers and 120-mm. and 130-mm. artillery. In addition, some Christian troops have been brought to Israel for training. The Christian debt to the Israelis is such that, says a Christian leader, "in the end, we may find that we will have to choose between Syria and Israel...
...Christians are well armed with supplies pouring into the port of Jounieh, north of Beirut-including U.S. M-16 rifles from Israel, which has also intercepted arms shipments destined for the Moslems en route to the southern Lebanese port of Tyre. Regaining the offensive, the Christians set about carving out an enclave stretching from East Beirut north to Tripoli between the Mediterranean and the Lebanon Mountains. By last week the only remaining Moslems in important numbers in the 800-sq.-mi. area were Palestinians in refugee camps. The Christians have leveled some of their heaviest firepower on the camps. Three...
...were killed and well over 200 wounded in one of the bloodiest weeks of Lebanon's civil war. If the Christians should take over the well-defended refugee camps, they will have carved a de facto province of their own that extends from eastern Beirut to the northern port of Jounieh and into the mountains farther east...
Other cities-notably Cleveland, St. Louis, Omaha and Louisville-have looked to their rivers for inspiration. Each began as a port town, then grew away from the water, allowing the original settlements to decay. Old wharves and warehouses are making room for bold new projects that mix parks with high-rise buildings. Conclusion: the American city, far from being down and out, is clearly growing...