Word: shipment
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...more damage to his kingdom than they were to Israel. Ever since, Jordan has been virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan's single port of Aqaba. Because the Suez Canal is blocked and ships must go around Africa, prices of imports have risen...
Through it all, there weaves a plot of sorts. Will the English land secret shipment of snuff on Rhett O'Ricks dock? Will Rhett stay sober enough to that Miss Glory Morning can marry him? Will Johnny Profane remain true to Chaste DeBluesaway despite her miniscule breasts? Or will her father the Mayor foreclose the Wrongway Inn instead? Not quite the ideological origins of the American Revolution, to be sure...
...which has been the backbone of Israel's clearly superior air force since 1969. Considering the importance of the planes, Israelis should have been happier-and Arabs more furious -than they were after it was announced at year's end that the U.S. was prepared to resume shipment of F-4s to Israel...
...Viet Nam War. Since then, 660 Americans of military age have applied for permission to live in Sweden. It is not automatically granted; the standards for acceptance set up by the Swedish government stipulate that the dodgers and deserters must demonstrate that they were very probably in line for shipment to Indochina. As a statement from the Swedish chapter of Amnesty International carefully points out: "We have helped draft resisters and deserters in a humanitarian way if they have been destitute. That's all. We haven't mixed in policy matters...
...agents said no shipment was discovered...