Word: ports
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to represent the NEISA in the Olympic finals at Marion, Mass., on June 12-17. Strong winds this weekend could eliminate Townsend early in the competition, however, since he is extremely light (150 lbs.) for this class. The Melbourne Olympic yachting games will be held next November on Port Philip...
Time and again, witnesses were allowed to contradict themselves and change their stories without reproof. Sample: Thief Willie Manoch testified that Jungschlaeger brought an arms-laden ship into Djambi in May. The defense replied that, due to low tides, the river port could not be entered in May. Said Manoch: "Oh yes, that's true. It was in October.'' Soothed the prosecutor: "One can make a mistake." Jungschlaeger himself pointed out that the Americans, Dutch and British were supposed to be involved in this "secret" operation. "And why then," he cried, "am I standing here alone, like...
...dawn broke over the small Algerian fishing port of Collo, the grim shape of a French cruiser materialized out of the darkness. Even as French children swarmed down to the beach to cheer, Georges Leygues' 8-in. guns swung shoreward and thundered salvo after salvo into the hills behind the town. Minutes later, French planes strafed the target area. Marines swarmed ashore from the cruiser, trucks carrying Senegalese troops roared up the road from Philippeville and swung up into the hills. It was the first combined air-sea-ground operation of the French in Algeria, aimed at the concentration...
...rated the best in Asia. Since Hong Kong is a free port...
Most dramatic: a proposal that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. each designate within their borders a 20,000-30,000 sq.mi. area that would be open to inspection teams from the other country. In these areas, which would have no atomic installation but would have at least one port, one airfield, one railway terminal and some military forces, the inspection teams would be free to carry out aerial photography, watch all traffic and check on military installations. This plan, according to the U.S. theory, would be a quick means of getting disarmament started and of establishing mutual trust. It would...