Word: littorale
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As a safeguard against the possibility that Egypt might some day reconsider and order Soviet sailors home too, the Russians reportedly are seeking additional port privileges elsewhere along the Mediterranean littoral. Such ports have a variety of uses; the U.S., although it operates a "naval train" from Norfolk to the...
Algeria's population is increasing by 3.7% every year, and the birth rate is Africa's highest, in part because Islam frowns on birth control. Less than one-seventh of the land along the Mediterranean littoral is arable, and only in recent months has the government seriously begun...
"We're keenly disappointed," said an official at Shell Oil, which had proposed a $100 million littoral refinery. "We're particularly sorry to see that emotionalism was permitted to obscure the fact that we are capable of building a clean refinery." But Peterson, himself a former Du Pont...
Ironically, it has begun rolling at a time when blacks-not whites-rule in much of the area. This is true not only of the countries in the Caribbean littoral that remain colonial outposts of the U.S., Britain, France and The Netherlands, but also of those that won their independence...
Heady Days. Fifer is typical of the residue of tough-minded collegians left after a powerful but formless wave of students came rushing onto the scene in May to establish a beachhead in conventional politics. Summer started, school ended, and predictably most of the student volunteers have forsaken figurative for...