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Although most of the city's population probably couldn't care less. Cleveland State University provides the Lake Erie port, another claim to fame...
Several highly-placed Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) officials said yesterday that the coalition's first meeting "strongly influenced" Gov. Edward J. King's decision last Monday to withdraw his support of five bills calling for reorganization of Massport. The bills would have given King power over most of the reorganization...
...Soviet counterploys prompted U.S. concern that Moscow might want to establish a permanent port of call at Cam Ranh Bay, the sparkling white-sand harbor northeast of Saigon that served as the main U.S. Navy base in the Viet Nam War. Having rights to Cam Ranh would give the Soviets a dramatic new naval advantage and would pose a potential threat to Chinese and Western shipping lanes, especially Japan's petroleum lifeline through the Strait of Malacca. But with no overt Soviet moves by week's end, Western observers remained hopeful that Hanoi's independent-minded leaders...
Unlike a stock exchange, the spot market has no big board, no floor, and at present, no ceiling-on prices anyway. It is often called the Rotterdam market because most of the world's spot oil moves through that Dutch port city. But the spot market exists anywhere that a trader with a shipload of oil available for immediate sale can connect with a big-ticket buyer. Transactions can be and have been made in London, Houston, Hong Kong and Eleventh Avenue diners in Manhattan...
...active role in the investigation of King appointees, the House recently proposed a resolution calling for it to launch a preliminary inquiry. The state's only other investigative commission, a blue-ribbon panel on the MBM contracts scandal, is currently seeking the authority to look into the Massachusetts Port Authority, an agency directed by King until his firing in 1975. Whether either commission will eventually plunge into the King affair remains in doubt, but Harshbarger said the suggestion "would have to be taken very seriously...