Word: seaports
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...week before Von Horn's arrival, the desperate Egyptians made air strikes against Saudi Arabia. A dawn raid on the seaport of Jizan killed 25 and wounded 300 sleeping inhabitants. The Egyptian excuse: renewed royalist activity must mean renewed military aid from Saudi Arabia...
...Dutch port of Rotterdam is already Europe's biggest seaport, and the prosperity of the Common Market pours through it in a growing current of trade. Strategically set astride the Rhine-Maas waterway, which leads to the heart of industrial Europe, Rotterdam handles more cargo than Antwerp, Bremen and Hamburg put together-and nearly as much as New York (90.1 million tons v. New York's 90.5). Ambitious Rotterdam and its wily businessmen are not content with second place. They have launched a campaign to pass New York as the world's biggest port, are busily building...
...gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry in London on the off-chance that they might nab the gang in the act of melting their haul into easily portable nuggets...
Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...
...visited each day by but one train, two planes, and practically no tourists. But thanks to a 17-mile ship channel to the Gulf of Mexico and the imagination of a profane, one-time U-boat commander named Friederich Wilhelm ("Fritz") Hofmokel, Brownsville today is a flourishing seaport that last year handled 4,685,000 tons of cargo. More than half that tonnage consisted of low-grade Mexican oil imported under a unique arrangement that Brownsville's predominantly Mexican-American inhabitants fondly refer to as "El Loophole...