Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...P.L.F. split in 1983, and again Syria was the cause. After being expelled from Beirut following the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, P.L.O. guerrillas loyal to Arafat settled in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli. Rival factions backed by Syria staged an armed attack on them. Part of Abbas' P.L.F. sided with Syria, but Abbas threw in his lot with Arafat, and when Arafat lost, joined him in exile in Tunis. Their alliance became formal last November...
...people who happened to be here--Abul Abbas. I have never heard of Abul Abbas, I have never heard about his activities. I did not meet him. They told me he was going to Tunisia on his way from Iraq, and he made a stop here. He went to Port Said and contacted the hijackers. The conclusion was that if they freed the ship and saved the lives of the people, we would let them go free...
...have come at a worse time for grain exporters. Their shipping season ends Dec. 16, shortly before the seaway freezes up, although on occasion the seaway has been kept open an extra week or two when weather permitted. For Thunder Bay, Ont., the world's largest grain-exporting port, a lengthy shutdown could imperil the delivery of 6 million tons of Canadian wheat and animal feed bound for the Soviet Union. At the port of Milwaukee, ( 20,000 tons of food destined for famine victims in Africa and India last week sat piled up on the docks. Supplies headed...
Canada, which runs the seaway with the U.S., was blamed by some port directors for failing to maintain its side of the aging system. Opened in 1959 by President Eisenhower, who hailed it as an economic boon for the region, the seaway links the Atlantic Ocean, the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario to the rest of the Great Lakes. The seaway experienced a first catastrophe last year, when a lift bridge at Valleyfield, Que., jammed. That caused an 18-day shutdown and cost shippers more than $40 million in lost business. At an Ottawa press conference last week, William...
...beach people" were taken to Cairo to prepare for the long, sad flight home, with a detour to Italy, where she helped pick the four hijackers out of a lineup. On Saturday, after waiting two days for the Egyptian government to permit the Achille Lauro to leave Port Said, the ship's owners announced that the remainder of the eleven-day cruise had been canceled...