Word: crete
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...policymaking had foreseen how Veliotes would get his wish. More than 30 hours after the seagoing hijack drama had ended, a flight of four F-14 Tomcat fighter-interceptors from the aircraft carrier Saratoga pulled alongside a chartered EgyptAir Boeing 737 jetliner just south of the Mediterranean island of Crete. The Egyptian aircraft had left Cairo's Al Maza military airport 1 hour and 45 minutes earlier, apparently headed for Tunis. Aboard it were the hijackers, accompanied by two representatives of the Palestine Liberation Organization and a number of Egyptian diplomats and security officials...
...field where his competence had gone virtually unquestioned. After the French withdrew 3,000 paratroopers from Chad between last September and November, Mitterrand discovered that, contrary to the agreement with Gaddafi, a substantial number of Libyan troops remained. A chagrined President was forced to fly to Crete to confront Gaddafi, a move that was denounced by former Premier Maurice Couve de Murville as "the greatest humiliation that France has suffered for a long time." Mitterrand has been hurt as well by public concern over the still simmering separatist revolt in the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia...
Less than 24 hours later, French President François Mitterrand took off for the Greek island of Crete, and a surprise summit meeting with Libya's strongman, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. Back in Paris, Mitterrand was forced to admit that, no, the Libyans had not completed their pull-out and that approximately two battalions still remained. There seemed little doubt, as the Paris daily Le Monde put it, that the U.S. statement had "profoundly embarrassed the The French bid adieu to Libyans French authorities...
After the crushing of the Turk at Lepanto, Venice had no challengers of any size left in the Mediterranean. Its empire, secured by an invincible fleet of galleys, ran from the northern Adriatic to Crete, and its trade embraced half the world, reaching as far as China. It was the richest, the most socially coherent and the most formidably armed state south of the Alps. Its doges and merchants were cunning and civil-minded, and its women notable for beauty if one could get used to their obsession with the vagaries of chic: "They weare very long crisped hair," remarked...
...Under the hometown column of the team roster, occasional entries from New Jersey and Texas, California, Colorado or even Connecticut are fairly obliterated in a hailstorm of small Nebraska towns. It reads like the appendix of an almanac: Plattsmouth, Scottsbluff, Bell wood, Fremont, Waterloo, Dix, Ponca, Shelby, Wahoo, Hildreth, Crete, Burr... Steinkuhler is from Burr...