Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best-known Z-gram sets a goal of 15 minutes as the maximum time any sailor should have to wait in any line for anything. Others expand liberty for men in port, permit them to wear civilian clothes at all shore installations, create a pilot program to fly their wives and children (at their own expense) to ports where their ships stay. Another offers a Pentagon computer to match up sailors wishing to exchange duty stations; men used to have to engineer their own swaps. Z-gram 35 permits beer-vending machines in enlisted men's quarters and alcoholic...
Though the government ordered state-owned TV to carry no news of the insurrection, the revolt steadily picked up steam and sympathy. Two weeks ago, Italy's conservative C.I.S.L. labor union called a general strike in the Reggio area. Port workers, post office clerks and telephone and telegraph employees left their jobs. When railway workers followed last week, the 10 million people in Sicily and the toe of the Italian boot were virtually cut off from the rest of the ''country. Barricades and wrecked tracks forced trains from the north to halt two hours short of Reggio...
Authorities in the ancient Black Sea port of Trebizond, Turkey, bustled about excitedly last week as the Soviet Aeroflot AN-24 craft circled for an unscheduled landing. After all, few foreign planes ever land in the small (pop. 66,000) market town. Excitement soon turned to consternation as frantic passengers scrambled out the rear door and two bloodied pilots staggered from the front of the plane. Both had been wounded by gunshots. Inside lay the stewardess, 18-year-old Nadezhda Kulchenko, dead of a bullet wound. That dreaded international malady, skyjacking, had finally spread to Russia...
Tourists also find Nassau increasingly seedy and surly. But the struggle is centered on the shiny new Freeport area, which has rubbed on the sensibilities of many blacks, especially Pindling, ever since it was created in 1955 by an extraordinary law. Under it, the Grand Bahama Port Authority, owned by a group of opportunistic foreign investors, was given almost sovereign powers over Freeport, including exemption from corporate and personal income taxes until 1990, and from some import duties until 2054. The Port Authority deal turned into a heated scandal when several officials of the all-white government later admitted taking...
Fanning the black Bahamians' longstanding sense of grievance over discrimination, Pindling charged that Freeport was "an alien anomaly that must either bend or break." It needed a "social conscience" and "a soul." To instill them, the government acquired an interest in the Port Authority and tightened gambling tax surveillance. Last year Pindling gained major new leverage: control of immigration and the issuing of work permits in Freeport...