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Brummond spoke as calmly as if he were ordering port in the Ares Club.

Mr. Broadbent also said that unlike the English, who drink their ports at home or in clubs, Americans order port in restaurants, more like the Portuguese do these days.

The French port of Calais was said to have been placed on a particularly high level of alert, and Robin Dodridge, the security chief at Dover, one of Britain's busiest ports, said authorities had ordered port operators to "further tighten up their security levels to Christmas, and particularly at this time."