Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beyond the Western Hemisphere's contribution, the Europeans can still count on -for the moment, at least-some 325,000 bbls. a day pumped by tapline through Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean. And they will still get some 800,000 bbls. a day around the Cape of Good Hope-including perhaps as much as 350,000 bbls. normally bound from the Middle East to the U.S. East Coast (a deficit that the U.S. will make up in routing more oil from the Gulf Coast to the Atlantic seaboard...
...last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade of troops into Jordan. Syria's inept little army cannot make good use of Russia's modern arms; the arms were obviously being stockpiled for eventual use by Moscow "volunteers." In this uneasy circumstance, Syria's anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact...
...talk will be given in the Large Lecture Room of Fogg Museum. Mithras was a sun deity imported from India by the peoples of the Easern Mediterranean...
...President Shukri el Kuwatly has been the virtual prisoner of the army, and Colonel Serraj has established himself as Syria's strongman. Nominally the army's chief of intelligence, Colonel Serraj last month personally planned the sabotage of the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline to the Mediterranean, the key pro-Nasser play that cut off 60% of the Middle East oil flowing to Europe by other routes than Suez. The colonel is all for Nasser and all for the Soviets. Last week Washington confirmed news reports that Soviet arms have lately been arriving in "a steady flow...
...Most recent theory is that in their Exodus the Israelites did not follow the southern route traced by tradition, but the sandy northern road along the Mediterranean coast (see map). In that case, Mount Sinai should be that unimpressive mound known as Jebel Hillel, 30 miles south of El Arish, and rising a mere 2,000 ft. from the alluvial plain...