Word: mediterranean
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...himself, despite the vow of the three Yalta leaders to help secure "the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live." Now that the Soviets are loosening the fist they clenched after Yalta, it will be up to two men in the Mediterranean to redeem the promises the Soviets made about Eastern Europe 44 long years...
...George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev both stand to gain from a feet-up-on-the-table, let's-get-to-know-each-other chat. In a head-snapping acceleration of their relationship, the two leaders announced last week that they would visit each other aboard ships moored in the Mediterranean Sea Dec. 2 and 3 for a summ . . . oops, pardon, meeting...
WASHINGTON--President Bush announced yesterday that he will hold a shipboard summit in the Mediterranean with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev December 2 and 3 "to put up our feet and talk" informally prior to a full-blown superpower meeting next year...
...sources, insisting on anonymity, also said the most likely U.S. ship for the talks was the cruiser Belknap, the 547-foot long, missile-armed flagship of the Sixth Fleet, based in the Mediterranean. There was speculation Bush would make the ship his headquarters and spend the night there...
...termite's view of the adventures of Noah and his ark. (Noah, it turns out, was not a particularly nice fellow, and his epic voyage was less than heroic in its details.) Matters then proceed through a number of other diverting incidents, among them the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Arab terrorists, Jonah's sojourn in the belly of the whale, the historic wreck of a French ship and the religious experiences of an American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design...