Word: portes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believer in democracy and civil liberties. To be sure, changes have taken place in the Communist world, but everyone on the Left recognizes that. There is absolutely no question of "Old" and "New" involved here: was the SDS any less the New Left when it said in its 1962 Port Huron Statement that "as democrats, we are in basic opposition to the communist system," as today, when they refuse to make such a definite commitment? Steven J. Kelman '69, Elliot Abrams '69 Co-Chairmen Harvard-Radcliffe Young People's Socialist League Campus Americans for Democratic Action
...dozen sheep were ceremonially slaughtered, the tanker British Confidence blasted a salute, and Libya's 76-year-old King Idris last week officially opened his country's newest oil port at Marsa Hariga, two miles from Tobruk. To mark the occasion, the desert monarch was handed a $5,000 gold key by Texas' Nelson Bunker Hunt, 40, second son of H. L. Hunt and half owner of the oil company that made the Marsa Hariga facilities possible. The other 50% interest is held by British Petroleum Co., and the firm is named - logically, if not lyrically...
Lethal Vapor. Anti-Sallal republicans have made three assassination attempts on Sallal in recent months, sabotaged the Soviet-built port of Hodeida, and frequently cut the main roads linking the cities. They have gunned down dozens of Egyptians from ambush and blown their Jeeps to bits with mines. So strong is the anti-Egyptian feeling that emissaries sent with bundles of cash to buy the loyalty of dissident chieftains have been murdered and the money returned-the latter a most unusual occurrence in the Middle East...
...Beirut and announced that he was on his way to offer his services to the royalists. A Jordanian army officer went over to the Egyptian side. And an Egyptian intelligence officer armed with a Sten gun forced the pilot of an Egyptian turboprop airliner bound for a Red Sea port to fly him to Jordan, where he took political asylum...
...been commissioned a capitaine de vaisseau (the naval equivalent of full colonel). The change in grade may mean that the capitaine's handsome wife Henriette will get to the Paris Opera less often. This week he takes command of the guided-missile frigate Suffren, based in .the Mediterranean port of Toulon. In their first joint venture as producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that has her playing a blind girl terrorized by a couple...