Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first race is scheduled to start at 1 p. m. at the M. I. T. sailing pavilion on the Charles River Basin; port time for skippers and crews today is 13:30 p.m. Tomorrow's racing series will start...
...satisfied with that narrow triumph, Soccer Fan M'Ba ordered deportation of all resident Congolese, who have never been very popular in Gabon, even among nonsports lovers. About 2,000 Congolese were shunted into hastily assembled concentration camps, then shipped down the Africa coast to a Congo port. The Congo in turn retaliated against Gabonese citizens living in Brazzaville. Mobs ripped into the Gabonese neighborhood of Poto-Poto, devastating shops and homes and injuring dozens of Gabonese. Only the intercession of Congo President Fulbert Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater...
...coast from Aden, Yemen had its own convulsion. The trouble began weeks ago, when one Colonel Abdullah Sallal, former commander of the port city of Hodeida and implicated in previous plots against the monarchy, launched a new conspiracy. It was aimed at the Imam, known as Ahmad the Devil, who had ruled despotically for 14 years, survived repeated rebellions, and liked to behead his numerous enemies in public. No one is quite sure why Sallal was plotting against the Imam, but one theory is that Sallal is a Nasser sympathizer and Nasser hated the Imam for a rude poem...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...
...Port time for Saturday's first race is 12:30 p.m. at the M.I.T. sailing pavilion. The race is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. Sunday's racing program will begin...