Word: ported
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways. Reporters who arrived to cover the rioting were beaten. Two white women were raped. Later in the week, rioting broke out in the port city of Liverpool's Toxteth district, also the scene of racial disturbances...
...launched an operation so far from home. This time, the Israelis flew some 1,500 miles across the Mediterranean, twice refueling in midair. The Israelis announced that the raid was in reprisal for the murder by terrorists a week earlier of three Israeli civilians on a yacht in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus. The Israelis were convinced that the attack, which took place on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, had been carried out by Force 17, a commando unit from the Fatah branch of the P.L.O., a claim the organization denied...
Tawheed and the pro-Syrian militias have been fighting in the northern port for the past two years, but the battle for Tripoli that broke out on Sept. 15 has been the most destructive. Since then, entire neighborhoods have been razed in house-to-house fighting and by the relentless pounding of Syrian artillery. More than 550 people have been killed, and half of the city's 500,000 citizens have fled. The Soviet kidnapings occurred just as the black- scarved Tawheed fighters seemed in danger of being overrun by the Syrian- backed factions...
...standing-room-only crowds, but this one played to a half-empty hall. Even the usually thunderous Botha seemed somewhat weary of the routine. Once again his theme was racial reform, and once again his message was fraught with ambiguities and contradictions. "I finally confirm," he announced in Port Elizabeth, "that my party and my government are committed to the principle of a united South Africa, one citizenship and a universal franchise." But, Botha warned, one man, one vote in a unitary state would result in the "dictatorship of the strongest black group," which would lead to "greater struggle...
Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, one of the country's more moderate black leaders, dismissed the Port Elizabeth speech as "bitterly disappointing." Dr. Nthato Motlana, a senior civic leader in Soweto, South Africa's largest black township, branded Botha's remarks an "absolute waste of time." Leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, delivering their assessment from Zambia, called the proposals "meaningless amendments of the apartheid system," while the Sowetan, South Africa's largest black daily, editorialized: "The unified South Africa only reflects another glorified system of homelands . . . (Apartheid) cannot be dressed up in false colors. We are not that...