Word: ported
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rotterdam-Antwerp pipeline, a key conveyor of crude from the supposedly embargoed Dutch port to Belgium, has been pumping as much oil as it did before the boycott began...
...further tests to be sure, as well as to determine if the tape was erased, spliced, edited or whether it is the original recording or a doctored copy. Many questions about the tape will be answered, at least partially, when the panel of experts makes its final re port to Sirica shortly after Jan. 1. Af terward, Sirica said, the panel will con tinue "its comprehensive study of the authenticity and integrity of the tapes in general...
...Pubs and clubs in all of Papua New Guinea were closed not only on Dec. 1, the first day of self-rule, but also on the days preceding and following the historic event. The passage of power was officially marked only by a brief ceremony in the capital of Port Moresby, where the Australian administrator changed his title to high commissioner, the equivalent of ambassador...
...Ruiz Cortines, 82, President of Mexico from 1952-58, who cleaned up undisguised corruption, restored confidence in the government and extended the right to vote to Mexican women; of a heart attack; in Veracruz. An accountant who entered politics during the revolution of 1910-21 as mayor of the port of Veracruz, Ruiz Cortines was Governor of the state of Veracruz in 1947 when he was appointed Secretary of the Interior by President Miguel Aleman. After his election to the presidency on a reform ticket, Ruiz Cortines published a list of his own assets, ordered his subordinates...
China's trade relationship with England seemed no different. By the emperor's decree, only Canton could be used as a port of call. This allowance was seen as a favor. Chinese believed that they needed nothing the British could offer and, according to one wide misconception, that the English could not live without tea or rhubarb, without which they would surely die of constipation...