Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fogg is an absolutely failproof way to forget that you are at Harvard and about as frazzled as the appalling weather and your failing academics can make you. Its interior has a sunny but peaceful Mediterranean charm that at least allows you to pretend its warm outside. And on those truly horrid days you can always go and look at Toulouse-Lautrec's "The Hangover" whereupon you will undoubtedly be much consoled. And if even that doesn't work you may go and empathize with Van Gogh's absolutely terrifying self-portrait...
Israel strictly controls Gaza's commerce, including its primary crops of oranges, lemons and limes, to ensure that the occupied land does not compete with Israel. For security reasons, Israel has limited Gaza's second major industry, fishing, to a narrow slice of the Mediterranean. The result is a retarded economy, with little prospect for growth. Brigadier General Shai Eres, who until last month headed Gaza's civil administration, admits that the shackled economy severely limits the region's prospects. Says Eres: "Of course, there is no independence possible for this area...
...have attacked six unarmed ships in the gulf, including two Japanese tankers. That stirred Japan into offering modest help to finance the U.S. defensive operations in the international waterway, including some $10 million worth of advanced navigational gear. West Germany too offered indirect support, sending three warships into the Mediterranean to free other NATO vessels for gulf patrols. Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands already have warships and minesweepers on duty in the gulf -- as does the Soviet Union, which has a dozen ships there and in the Arabian...
...capable, we were ready . . . and they ((U.S. forces)) did an extraordinary, skillful and difficult task very well." The successful military show was staged only a week after the FBI's seizure of a much wanted Shi'ite Muslim terrorist, Fawaz Younis, who was lured onto a yacht in the Mediterranean, seized and spirited off to stand trial in the U.S. for the 1985 hijacking of a Jordanian airliner that carried four Americans among its 70 passengers and crew...
...greatest powers of the day. The Khmer Rouge's bad luck was to be living next door to an equally warlike Viet Nam. Otherwise it would be killing to this day, assuming there were any Cambodians left to kill. Gaddafi had the misfortune of being hard by the Mediterranean, an American lake. And Idi Amin's butchery came to an end after he had trespassed once too often on neighboring Tanzania, which muscled its way into Uganda and threw...