Word: porting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Woodall Port Arthur, Texas...
Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...aviation] market would be hostile to anything that would not keep it this way." French newspapers and magazines picked up the conspiracy theme-with hysterical abandon. Paris Match, for example, last week breathlessly exposed "The Plot Against Concorde." With French opinion whipped to fever pitch as the Port Authority's deadline neared, U.S. Ambassador Kenneth Rush, who supports the Concorde, considered bolting the steel shutters on the embassy's windows in case of violence...
Another drawback to increased gas imports is the danger of a ship spilling some of its cargo in or near a port. That could result in a catastrophe far worse than the oil spills from tankers that have worried many Americans this winter. As the frozen LNG warms into gas, it could ignite, creating an immense fireball threatening lives and property in the vicinity. Last year New York, New Jersey, Delaware and other coastal states petitioned the Federal Power Commission to promulgate national safety standards that would keep LNG port facilities out of populous areas. The agency is still considering...