Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These were the early days of the fasting month of Ramadan. In the darkening sky over hot, humid Alexandria a crescent moon glided toward the evening star, a pattern suggesting an Islamic flag. When U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance arrived in that ancient Mediterranean city last week, few could imagine that Ramadan's omen of peace and tranquillity would bear fruit. Yet by the time Vance took off for Washington two days later, an extraordinary effort to revive the peace talks had begun. Like Israeli Premier Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had accepted Jimmy Carter...
...statement following the House's action, Carter praised the "bipartisan, statesman-like recognition that the time has come to turn a new page in our relations with the countries of the eastern Mediterranean... [It] is a crucial step toward strengthening the vital southern flank of NATO." Washington expects that the Turks will reciprocate soon by allowing the U.S. to resume electronic monitoring of Soviet military activity from Turkish bases, which the Turks closed down three years...
...than 300 warplanes and nearly 3,000 tanks, they help tie down about 26 divisions of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact, which otherwise might be deployed against NATO forces in Central Europe. Its location enables Turkey to monitor Soviet warships, including submarines, passing from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean and to deny overflight rights to Russian warplanes headed for the Middle East. Three U.S.-manned electronic surveillance bases, due to resume operations shortly, can eavesdrop on the U.S.S.R.'s underground nuclear explosions and missile tests and even tune in radio traffic between Soviet aircraft...
...expression, unmediated purity of color and a faith in what Kandinsky called the "inner necessity": these were the watchwords, and what they helped produce-as in Alexej Jawlensky's Young Girl with Peonies, 1909-was a northern equivalent to what the Fauves had been painting beside the Mediterranean for some several years past...
...approaching midafternoon, and a sparkling, early-summer Spanish sun still shone high over the tiny Mediterranean resort of San Carlos de la Rapita. Most of the 600 French, West German and Belgian tourists at Los Alfaques (the Sandbars) campsite were eating a leisurely sitdown lunch in front of their tents and trailers or at picnic tables under the shade of palm and cypress trees. Others were dozing off for a vacation siesta. Groups of children romped among the sunbathers basking on the narrow beach...