Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Syria lost a fifth of its revenues ($20 million a year) by its pro-Nasser gesture of blowing up the pipelines carrying Iraqi oil across the country to the Mediterranean...
From the time of Mohammed the Prophet, Arabs have had a single, possessive name for the littoral lands that stretch along the African shore of the Mediterranean from Tripoli to Casablanca -"Djezira-el-Maghreb," or "Island of the West." In Cairo last week, where Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser keeps a small shoal of exiles from French North Africa (some fleeing trouble, some fomenting it), Egypt's ambitious Arab nationalists were worried by reports of a plan designed to take Maghreb out from under their noses...
...officers and men of the Sixth Fleet know from experience that the Mediterranean lies at the heart of the most volatile, least predictable region in the world. But beyond all local questions hovers the big one: Can the Sixth Fleet survive if the Russians turn their high-flying bombers against the easily radar-spotted targets in the middle of the all but landlocked Mediterranean...
...Fleet Admiral Ernest King's staff in Washington, 2) commander of the escort carrier Kalinin Bay in the Pacific, 3) chief of staff of Carrier Division One from Leyte Gulf to the shores of Japan. Eleven more years of staff work and carrier command in the Pentagon and Mediterranean won him his third star and command of the Sixth Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy...
...watch broken by chow lines, snatched sack time, ships' movies, and mail brought in almost daily by helicopter and high-line-with a high level of discipline and a low level of petty offenses that reflected superb morale. "This," said one ensign, comparing the salad days of Mediterranean duty to the present paucity of ports, "is no all-expense tour...