Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Have been fired on and boarded by Cambodian armed forces. Vessel being escorted to unknown Cambodian port...
Merchant ships moved through the Suez Canal last week for the first time since the Six-Day War eight years ago. In preparation for the canal's formal reopening on June 5, the West German freighters MÜnsterland and Nordwind sailed to Port Said from the Bitter Lakes along with 13 other ships. The rusting carriers had been trapped there since the canal was blocked in 1967. Discerning a parallel between the preparations for the canal reopening and the broader peace negotiations that have made it possible, Egyptian Cartoonist Salah Jaheen in al Ahram last week drew President...
...good ship "Diplomatic Drive" was certainly busy last week. To emphasize Egypt's peace hopes, Sadat in connection with the canal reopening declared Port Said and the surrounding area a free-trade zone. In preparation for his June 1 summit meeting in Salzburg with President Ford, Sadat was set to embark on a round of conferences in Arab capitals, including the first visit ever by an Egyptian President to Baghdad (see story page 32). In Moscow, meanwhile, the Soviets completed a series of strategy conferences with Arab diplomats from Egypt, Iraq and Syria and with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman...
...Republic of Singapore, an island city-state of 2.1 million people (75 per cent of them of Chinese ethnic origin), became an independent nation in August 1965 after two turbulent years as a constituent state of the Federation of Malaysia. Established in 1819 as a port and later as a major military base for the British Empire. Singapore has grown since independence to be the world's third busiest port and one of its major oil-refining centers, with an economic base of manufacturing, shipbuilding, commercial and financial services, and a per capita GNP of over $1000 per year...
...loss of port facilities in Greece and Turkey also means that the Sixth Fleet has fewer "bingo fields," airstrips ashore to which carrier planes can divert in emergencies or bad weather. In addition, the new political situation creates morale problems for seamen, who will be forced to spend more and more time aboard ship without the chance of seeing their families and without liberty in the foreign ports...