Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Recently, while on a four-month reporting tour in Eastern Europe, Tinnin witnessed an incident that underscored the dramatic shift in naval power. He and other newsmen were covering the arrival of Leonid Brezhnev for talks in Belgrade when Soviet warships steamed menacingly into the Adriatic port of Rijeka, where the Russians would like to establish a base. Neither the journalists nor the Tito government could miss the point of the dual visitation...
...Rock Port...
...embassy in Washington, then taken to Kennedy Airport in a minibus by several embassy staffers. During the drive, Kurashvili slashed his neck and wrists with a razor blade; he was bleeding heavily when his escorts attempted to drag him through the airport to board an Aeroflot flight to Moscow. Port of New York Authority police intervened and rushed Kurashvili to a nearby hospital. Smelyi, after indicating to the police that he wanted to return home, was allowed to board the waiting Russian...
...electric shavers, which are almost impossible to buy at home. Going the other way, 90,000 East Germans invaded Polish grocery stores to take advantage of that country's lower food prices, bought thousands of wicker baskets and cleaned out the stock of blue jeans in the port of Szczecin (formerly Stettin...
Hurt by jet-age competition, the Queens began losing money, and in the late 1960s both were sold to American investors, who intended to use them as hotels and tourist attractions. After rolling at anchor at Port Everglades, Fla., the Queen Elizabeth was resold in 1970 for $3.2 million to Hong Kong Shipping Magnate C.Y. Tung. Renaming the ship Seawise University (a play on his initials), Tung began refitting her as a combination floating school and luxury cruise ship. With the work about 90% completed, she was almost ready for sea trials...