Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haitians who endured the 28-year rule of the Duvalier dynasty, it was a vivid replay of an old nightmare. A sudden police fusillade two weeks ago outside Port-au-Prince's Fort Dimanche, once a prison and torture center of the feared Tonton Macoute, killed eight marchers protesting Duvalier-era atrocities and wounded 20. The violence sparked demands for the resignation of the National Council of Government that has ruled since President-for-Life Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier fled in February. Last week the military- backed junta, which has been criticized for its plodding efforts at reform, took...
...would rather walk around Athens airport waving an Israeli flag than walk around the Port Authority [bus station] in New York waving my wallet," William A. Davis, travel editor of The Boston Globe, told the audience of 37 at the K-School's IOP forum on "Terrorism and Tourism: Flying the Unfriendly Skies...
...military section of the Tripoli International Airport, base of Libya's fleet of nine Il-76s, which have been used in terrorist operations for supply and transport. A third target was the Benghazi army barracks, which Gaddafi uses as an alternative command post. Then came barracks at the naval port of Sidi Bilal, near Tripoli, a commando training facility. Finally, security officials recommended a strike at the Benina airfield, where Libya's MiG-23 interceptors are based, as a precaution against counterattack...
...lightweights, after last week's impressive win over Dartmouth and MIT, the boat remains essentially unchanged--but Coach Charles Butt has done some shuffling of his port side in a search for the fastest possible combination...
...listened to cassette tapes on earphones. After arriving in Athens, she spent seven hours in the transit lounge, leaving on a Middle East Airlines flight for Beirut shortly after the crippled TWA 727, on its return from Rome, made its emergency landing in Athens. On Friday, in the Lebanese port city of Tripoli, a woman who identified herself as Mansur strongly denied that she had had any role in "such a terrorist crime...