Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though political union with France is a vague abstraction to most West Germans, the crowds responded eagerly to De Gaulle's outstretched hands, his praise for the "great German volk." Though he privately feels that the Common Market is already big enough, in the trade-minded port city of Hamburg De Gaulle disclaimed any intent of excluding other nations from the European community...
Mariel, a port near Havana, a cinder-block wall went up to screen the docks; local Cubans nicknamed the area "Little Berlin." But there was no way of concealing the Red army trucks and armored cars lined up five-deep for a quarter of a mile along Havana's waterfront San Pedro Street. Exiles with contacts in Cuba reported convoys of military vehicles, radar vans, mobile generators, field kitchens, and flatbed trucks bearing cylindrical objects under tarpaulins rumbling inland from the quays...
...mugs of coffee, then he returned to Dublin, for a round of golf that was cut short after six holes because everyone was soaked to the skin. Next day, his nostalgic 2,000-mile tour of Western Europe ended, Ike and Mamie, 65, boarded the liner America at the port of Cobh as cathedral bells pealed and a crowd of hundreds wished them bon voyage...
...other political parties. But the Russians themselves are working hard to increase their influence. The main tool is a lavish foreign-aid program, an estimated $500 million Soviet investment split between military aid (MIGs, tanks, rifles) and such projects as the first railroad linking Syria's Mediterranean port of Latakia with the Jezire agriculture district of the northeast. The Soviet embassy, largest in Damascus, is headquarters for a community that includes a 200-man military mission and 300 technicians...
...their muscle to organize the crowds, commandeer trucks to carry the rooters to the appointed place. When Duvalier wants the opposition squashed, the Macoutes do the job. Three weeks ago, one of the "vagrant law officers" halted a bus near the village of Gressier, 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, ordered out a peasant suspected of being anti-Duvalier, shot him three times in the back, twice more in the head, in full view of the passersby. Last week a night watchman at a highway maintenance depot who refused to hand over supplies for the Macoutes was found beaten...