Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SUDDENLY, it seemed almost like 1968 all over again. Once more, waves of U.S. aircraft-B-52s and carrier-based fighter-bombers-swept into the heart of North Viet Nam on heavy bombing raids. Their main target this time: the port of Haiphong, which had been off limits for U.S. planes since President Lyndon Johnson cut back the bombing of North Viet Nam four years ago. The planes dropped their bomb loads on fuel dumps, warehouses and, as the U.S. command in Saigon put it in an all-embracing phrase, "other activities which are supporting the invasion of South Viet...
Along with the seating change, Gladstone has "German Rigged" the boat for today's race. In such an arrangement both the four and five positions are manned by starboard oarsmen. This moves a port man into the bow slot. The results have been decisive, if this week's practices are any indication. The lightweight's practice workouts since Monday have been the best of the season...
...reputation on the survival of South Vietnam through "Vietnamization." The present offensive threatens the failure of this strategy. Mr. Nixon, in my opinion, is an unscrupulous man, who as the situation worsens in Vietnam will become increasingly desperate. So far he has bombed the capitol of Hanoi and the port of Haiphong more heavily than even Lyndon Johnson dared four years ago. There is every indication that he will go on to mine the port of Haiphong, blockade the coast and bomb ever closer to the Chinese border...
...only continued but increased its military aid to Greece, even as the American people were being told that there was an embargo on arms shipments to Greece. The island of Crete is being turned into a NATO nuclear base. Presently the U.S. is trying to secure permanent home port facilities in Piraeus and other major Greek ports. And with troubles in Turkey, Greece is becoming the whorehouse of the Sixth Fleet...
...conspired to fix prices at an improperly high level. Alioto was to be paid 15% of whatever he could recover, up to a maximum fee of $1,000,000. He eventually got the manufacturers to pay $16.2 million to his clients-the state of Washington, three cities, one port authority and eight public utility districts. Along the way, however, O'Connell consented to lift the $1,000,000 ceiling on Alioto's fee; Alioto got $2.3 million...