Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Moscow called it a "dangerous provocation"-even though the Black Sea is indisputably an international waterway open to ships of all nations. The Russians managed to sound especially self-righteous, since in recent weeks they have pulled back some 20 of the 52 ships from their flotilla in the Mediterranean. According to U.S. Navy officials, such sanctimoniousness on the part of the Russians is hardly justified; the Americans claim that the Communist admirals are doing nothing more than returning ships to their home ports to ride out the winter weather...
...between illusion and reality and maintains the mystery to the final frame. Director Guy Green wastes footage on tepid erotic interludes, and some of his Grecian tableaux smack of spring pageants at Vassar. Still, he has a strong sense of place, and he uses the azure skies and limpid Mediterranean to give the story the cast of eternity and overtones of legend-in-the-making. In the final hallucinatory segment, he makes the screen a place of brilliant anguish, when time present and time past mix like ouzo and water until neither is what...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, more influential in the Arab world than ever be cause of its arms shipments, has staked its own claim to the use of the Mediterranean for its expanding navy, sharply increasing the danger of a direct U.S.-Russian confrontation on the high seas should a new Middle East war break...
...event no one has yet answered your question as to what the Russians are doing in the Mediterranean, they are making it hard for Navy captains and their wives to enjoy an occasional quiet week ashore...
...MIDDLE EAST. If Viet Nam is Nixon's most urgent problem, the Arab-Israeli face-down may well prove his most perilous concern. Once the Soviets decided to reinforce their Mediterranean fleet and serve as chief armorers and advisers to the Arabs, they raised the possibility of direct conflict between the superpowers in that volatile area. During the campaign Nixon urged that the U.S. help keep Israel militarily strong enough to ensure its survival-a recommendation that has, naturally, annoyed the Arabs. To reopen communications with both sides and seek out possible paths to reconciliation, Nixon has assigned Pennsylvania...