Word: porting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...able to visit all the sick, the imprisoned, the suffering, but I ask them to be close to me in spirit," he said. Later, in what struck many listeners as a reference to the fact that he had been asked not to include in his itinerary the port of Gdansk, where the independent Solidarity union was founded in August 1980, the Pontiff called on Poles who could not see him "to welcome my presence in those places where my pilgrim path does...
Hawke's ten-day stopover in North America came near the end of a 25,000-mile, 19-day world tour that took him to Port Moresby, Jakarta, London, Paris and Geneva before he arrived in Washington. On the final leg of the trip, Hawke strongly reiterated Australia's commitment to the 1951 Australia-New Zealand-United States (ANZUS) Security Treaty for the defense of the Pacific. He pledged that there is no country that the U.S. "will be able to rely on more than Australia." In a speech before Washington's National Press Club, Hawke added...
...accept the agreement if it wished to get Israeli troops out of the country. Nonetheless, the vote drew sharp rebukes from Syria. Damascus Radio declared that Lebanese deputies who voted for the agreement had "sold their country to the devil." Perhaps coincidentally, shooting subsequently broke out in the northern port city of Tripoli in a renewal of fighting between Sunni Muslims and Syrian-backed Alawite Muslims...
...River, but few passengers aboard the cruise ship Alexander Suvorov were paying much attention. Most of the travelers had crowded into a large room on the uppermost deck to watch a movie. They never saw the end. While navigating a narrow channel near Ulyanovsk (pop. 650,000), the river port 425 miles east of Moscow where Lenin was born, the vessel apparently rammed into a railroad bridge with such force that the entire top section of the boat was sheared off. The number of casualties is still not certain, but as many as 400 may have died...
...bomb blast killed 18 people on a crowded sidewalk in Pretoria, a dozen South African jet fighters were skimming low over Maputo, capital of neighboring Mozambique. After loosing a barrage of rocket, cannon and machine-gun fire at private residences and a jam factory in a suburb of the port city, the Impala fighters peeled off westward and headed home...