Word: vessels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd shouted encouragement as the demonstrators boarded the vessel. The protesters threw oil barrels marked "Texaco" over the side of the boat, and raised signs calling for Nixon's impeachment...
...began during the military overthrow of Chilean President Salvador Allende Gossens. During the coup, a Cuban ship left Valparaiso so quickly that its crew had no time to put ashore four Chilean cranes that were being used to unload sugar. The Cuban captain's haste seemed justified; his vessel was bombed and strafed before escaping to sea. Another Cuban ship laden with sugar turned back to Havana before it made port in Chile. In each instance, Chile's new junta cried foul. It contended that Cuba had to deliver 18,000 metric tons of sugar because the Allende...
...court duly deferred to the diplomats, and the Cubans were delighted. The Russians meanwhile worked out a political face-saver by agreeing to deliver to Peru for transshipment to Chile; their vessel was released. But last week, just before the Imias would have sailed, the angry Chileans put up a required $25,000 appeal bond, and the case is now before the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Thus at week's end the Imias was still stuck in the canal, where its captain says he will sink her rather than give her up. The whole episode has left...
...fragments hit the 1,480-ton Greek freighter Tsimentavron, which was anchored in the harbor, and two seamen were killed. At Tartus, the Soviet freighter Ilya Mechnikov, which was reportedly unloading equipment for Syria's new Euphates Dam, was badly damaged by an Israeli missile, and a Japanese vessel was also reported sunk. The Russians immediately accused Israel of "barbarous" attacks on non-military targets, and demanded "the strict observance by Israel of the norms of international law." Air strikes were also flown against Egypt. Cairo claimed that 500 civilians were killed in air and artillery attacks on Port...
...Israeli navy sank three Egyptian boats carrying troops preparing to make a beachhead, and a fourth Egyptian vessel was destroyed northeast of Port Said...