Word: unloads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken because last year Japanese industry-carried away by Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's plan to double per capita income in a decade-launched into an orgy of expansion. Imports of heavy machinery became so great that ships had to wait as long as 30 days to unload, and Japan's trade deficit jumped to a record $1.5 billion. Determined to get the nation's balance of payments back on even keel, Ikeda raised interest rates, put curbs on imports, and mounted a drive to increase exports...
...ship arrived in Beirut harbor with 2,400 tons of wheat for the Palestinian Arab refugees, powerful voices throughout the Arab world demanded that it be sent away untouched. But Lebanon's Public Works Minister Pierre Gemayel was too realistic for that, went ahead and ordered longshoremen to unload the ship. Then, to the shock of Arab zealots, he demanded a "complete revision'' of boycott regulations, which, he said, were rooted in "chaos and fantasy." L'Orient, a major Lebanese daily, was bolder still, flatly urged the "defunct Arab League" to end its "ridiculous" boycott procedures...
...that order of vulnerability), whose economies are heavily reliant on tariff-free exports of meat, grain and dairy products to the British market, from which they may be excluded by 1970. Britain's toughest opposition came from the French, whose own farmers are already hard pressed to unload their high-cost surpluses. Even in Britain a Daily Mail national poll showed 52% were against British membership, compared with 42% two months ago. Nevertheless, Britain's giant Trades Union Congress voted overwhelmingly against rejection of the Common Market last week...
...though a trickling tap had suddenly been turned full on, Soviet bloc aid is pouring into Cuba. Since July 26, some 20 Soviet ships have embarked from Black Sea, Baltic and Siberian ports; by Aug. 8 at least eight vessels had docked at Cuban ports to unload military goods and 5,000 "technicians...
Anxious to unload their embarrassing guest, Israeli authorities last week packed Convicted Soviet Spy Robert Soblen onto an El Al plane for a U.S.-bound trip via Athens and London. But as the plane approached London, Soblen stabbed himself in the wrist and stomach with a steak knife, forcing British authorities to take him on as a hospital patient. The delay that Soblen won by his dramatic suicide attempt immediately created a legal tangle. Though the Home Office insisted that Soblen was not legally in Britain, two barristers-one a Labor M.P.-obtained a writ of habeas corpus delaying...