Word: porting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sukarno, since the Indonesian Communist Party is the nation's largest, and he has for years teetered between a Red takeover and a coup d'état by the anti-Communist army. Besides, it was no way for a guest to act. In the heavily pro-Red port city of Surabaya, Sukarno struck back. While Khrushchev sat bulkily silent on the platform. Sukarno told a crowd of 40,000 that Indonesia must maintain "its own personality,'' and promised eventual success for his own vague "guided democracy," or, as he put it: "Socialism â la Indonesia...
...night last week, tanks, guns and truckloads of troops rumbled out of the Cairo area toward Sinai. An Indian diplomat, hurrying to catch a ship at Port Said, was halted by a roadblock, had to make a frantic appeal to the Foreign Office before he could proceed. The entire army was alerted, transportation requisitioned, hospitals commandeered...
...port!" the Captain shouted As he staggered down the stairs...
...port of Aden itself, Arab nationalist ardor still runs high. A total of 1,800 oil workers are out on a strike called by the local Arab Trades Union Congress. Aden's port workers may still throb to Nasser's broadcasts, but it is the now quiescent Imam whom the British worry about. He is the chief threat to the garrison post from which they watch over their Persian Gulf oil interests. Reassured, the British are now preparing to create a second federation in Aden's even emptier Eastern Protectorate, where the British-run Iraq Petroleum...
Kasavubu's Abako group campaigned for a loose federal system in the new Congo, since its strength is mostly confined to the Leopoldville province. Lumumba, whose party group has wider geographical sup port, felt he would do better with a centralized regime. In the end the Belgians worked out a compromise modeled on the U.S. system with elaborate assurances of local and provincial authority...