Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After his April 20 speech, the President flew back from San Clemente to Washington to be greeted with the news that Communist troops had attacked two key Cambodian towns. In the next four days, they attacked and occupied four more, including the seaport of Kep. The capture of a port city was particularly alarming, since it gave the Communists a shipping terminal to replace Sihanoukville (now known by its old name, Kampong Som), which the Lon Nol government had closed to Communist traffic. "A border base is one thing," says the adviser. "A contiguous area supplied by sea, and interlocking...
Bombed to rubble in World War II, Rotterdam later became a marvel of economic growth. Holland's second biggest city now boasts the world's busiest port and a vast complex of petrochemical plants with blue-chip owners like Shell and British Petroleum. Unfortunately, the marvel also gushes appalling fumes - acrylates, hydrocarbons, paint solvents and sulfur dioxide. Of all Dutch deaths from bronchitis in urban areas, the highest number occur in Rotterdam. Dutch workers are quitting the city's industries, which are seeking replacements from as far away as Turkey...
...both the U.S. and Venezuela. The 2,800-man police force, the coast guard and about half of the army remained loyal.* Under its British-born commander, David Bloom, the coast guard blasted bridges and set off a landslide along the twelve-mile road between Teteron Bay and Port of Spain, thereby sealing off the mutineers from the capital. Loyal troops soon surrounded the Teteron Bay headquarters, but the rebels held some 30 soldiers and civilians as hostages...
...JOHN L. SWIGERT JR., 38, command-module pilot, has very little in common with the man he replaced beyond the fact that both are bachelors. Ken Mattingly is serious and studious. Swigert is a not-so-secret swinger with the reputation of having a girl in every (air) port. Swigert's favorite ploy, his friends say, is to invite girls to his apartment to see what he claims are his moon rocks. For all his bachelor antics, however, Swigert is a highly skilled former Air Force flyer and civilian test pilot with degrees in mechanical engineering, aerospace science...
Sinuous Color. Wadleigh is equally successful at conveying the sociological aspects of the event through concise interviews with townspeople, festival organizers, police and members of the audience. Everyone from a chief of police to a maintenance man for the Port-O-San portable toilet corporation gets his say. Woodstock, however, is not an unrelieved celebration. For every shot of easy affection in the grass and innocent group bathing in the nude, there is a scene in the medical tent, or the ominous voice of the onstage announcers: "The word is that some of the brown acid being passed around...