Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early coverage for the entire CBS network. And KLZ's mobile unit got to the wreckage of the time-bombed airliner, 32 miles from Denver, before many of the investigators, had pictures of the crash on the air within a few hours. Terry took a recorder on his Mediterranean vacation early this year, brought back four taped Sunday shows of recorded interviews called "KLZ Visits the Middle East." From these interviews came warnings that war would come to the Middle East within the year...
Atomic Retaliation. All day Washington waited word, with U.S. armed forces from the Mediterranean to the China Sea alerted for whatever the Russians might choose. As tension mounted. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. called from U.N. headquarters in Manhattan to propose that the President prepare dramatic measures. Soon a new strategy was under consideration in the White House: the President might fly to New York to appear before the U.N. General Assembly, to assure the U.N. that U.S. troops were available and ready to stop any Russian incursion. Meanwhile, the U.S. had reassured the jittery French and British through NATO...
...Britain's Iraq Petroleum pipeline, running from Iraq to the Mediterranean, has been blown up in so many places in Syria that its 500,000-bbl. daily flow has been completely shut off. If and when Britain resumes diplomatic relations with Syria, Britain may be able to pump oil at 40% capacity by using stations in Iraq; restoring the line to full capacity may take six months or longer...
...Trans-Arabian Pipe Line Co. (100% U.S. owned), which pumps 350,000 bbls. daily from Arabian-American Oil Co. fields to the Mediterranean, is still operating. But last week the Saudi Arabian government ordered Aramco to suspend all shipments to Britain and France, thus depriving them of some 35,000 bbls. daily by way of the pipeline, another 110,000 bbls. daily loaded on tankers in the Persian Gulf...
...concern over oil remained. The Middle East had been shipping 2,000,000 bbls. daily to Western Europe, 1,200,000 by tanker through the Suez Canal, the other 800,000 bbls. via pipeline from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean, where tankers picked it up. Another 300,000 bbls. daily had been going from the Mideast...