Word: aegean
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Turkish leaders have never accepted the legal status quo in the Aegean. They want either the partition of the Aegean or co-sovereignty over the region. They want half of the continental shelf in the eastern Aegean, and claim that Turkey, rather than Greece, has air-defense responsibility for an area that includes some of Greece's most important islands. It looks like the beginning of the dismemberment of Greece. Since all NATO exercises in the Aegean validate the Turkish viewpoint, we do not participate in them...
Wisely, Glazebrook keeps this sort of modernist baggage to a minimum. He knows what readers want from a travel book, and he does not disappoint them. His route, from the Aegean coast to the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union, stretches like an ancient weft on which history and legend are tightly knotted. This has a sumptuous effect on his prose: "We were surging through bright water off the promontory of Knidos, to which Praxiteles' Venus once drew all travelers . .. Here were the ramparts of Asia crumbling into a sapphire...
...high rank, it was topped with a dainty head. The deadliest of the Maori weapons, the sharp-sided club used in hand-to-hand fighting, is of similarly graceful design. Both categories of artwork bear an eerie resemblance to the 3000 B.C. figurines from the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean...
...Greeks contended last week that sending the F-5's to Turkey would upset the delicate balance of power in the Aegean. They regard their NATO partner Turkey, not the Communist bloc, as their greatest threat. Much of this animosity results from the political division of Cyprus, over which Athens and Ankara have been clashing for years...
...require the explicit approval of the Greek government. In the event of a national emergency, Greece will have the right to suspend all activities on the bases unilaterally. Reflecting Greece's longstanding mistrust of neighboring Turkey, the U.S. agreed to help preserve the balance of forces in the Aegean...