Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...body of evidence that Communist diplomacy, for all of Communism's interior weakness, was setting forth upon some showy new adventures. The Communists have proclaimed a test-model 3,500-mile missile, tested nuclear weapons, broken off months-old disarmament talks in London, sent light cruisers into the Mediterranean, shipped obsolete arms into Syria. Loy Henderson's specific point was that the Russians are so persistently brandishing the threat of force before impressionable Arabs that the U.S. has to convince the Arabs that the U.S. also packs atomic hardware, and if it should come...
...directionless confusion, people feared the Israelis, the Americans, the Russians, fellow Arabs-anyone who might start something. They talked about the latest Soviet fleet maneuvers in the Mediterranean. Nobody seriously argued that anybody was about to attack Syria, or that Syria was about to attack its neighbors...
...hubbub set off among Syria's neighbors by the rise to power of the pro-Soviet clique continued to echo. "Turkey has been selected by Washington to launch a military intervention against Syria," proclaimed Communist Peking, and added that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought...
Expected to cost roughly $500,000-less than half what it would have cost to build it with conventional labor-the Unity Road will serve as an invaluable commercial and political link between Morocco's interior and its Mediterranean ports. More important in Ben Barka's eyes is the fact that it has already created 12,000 missionaries for a new Morocco, men who will serve as leaders in future self-help projects. "We are building the road," reads the motto of Ben Barka's volunteers, "and the road is building...
...third is desert or mountain, another third is steppe, which furnishes seasonal pasturage for Bedouins. Save for a bit of the Euphrates Valley and the wheat-growing plains of the extreme northeast, most of Syria's fertile land lies in a narrow, well-watered belt paralleling the Mediterranean coast. So do the nation's two biggest cities (each about 500,000 population): the commercial center of Aleppo and colorful Damascus, which boasts that it is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, and is as notable for its strikingly modern apartments as its ancient bazaars and narrow...