Word: aegean
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...alliance, it will be hurt tactically-more so even than when Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated command in 1966. Unlike France, Greece is part of NATO's front line, bordering directly on Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Greece also controls, along with Turkey, the strategically important Aegean Sea, which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says a U.S. military expert. "Just look at a map. How do you bridge the huge military...
...Turkish government needed little prodding. Within recent months the festering relations between Greece and Turkey had worsened as a result of a dispute over a major discovery of offshore oil in the Aegean Sea near Thasos. The oil is situated in an area where the continental shelves of the two countries overlap, causing arguments about ownership. Turkey has indicated willingness to arbitrate the controversy, but Greece adamantly refuses. At the moment, Athens is in control of the area...
...modern times they fought in 1896-97 over Crete, which eventually went to Greece after a brief spell of independence, and in 1920 over Izmir, a Turkish province on the Aegean...
Recent discoveries of offshore oil reserves have already set China against South Viet Nam in the South China Sea, Russia against Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, and Greece against Turkey in the Aegean (though oil is certainly not the issue in Cyprus). Meanwhile, in all the world's major fisheries, fishermen of various nationalities are wrangling acrimoniously over catches of cod, tuna, salmon, herring, whales. Such quarrels in the past have triggered bitter diplomatic disputes, as in last year's "cod war" between Britain and Iceland and in the earlier "tuna wars" between the U.S. and Peru...
...Love's Labour's Lost anticipates As You Like It, Pericles anticipates The Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought...