Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pasta tariff is intended as a way to retaliate for Europe's treatment of U.S. citrus exports. The Administration claims that the European Community discriminates against American lemons and oranges by offering more favorable tariffs on fruit from Mediterranean countries, including Algeria and Israel...
Over the next 28 hours, as the plane bounced around the eastern half of the Mediterranean, the skyjackers had ample time to air their complaints. They were angry about an Arab League statement supporting the cause of the Palestinians in the Beirut refugee camps, which have been under attack by Lebanese Shi'ites for the past three weeks. The Shi'ites want to drive out the Palestinians to make sure that the P.L.O. will never again be able to set up a "state within a state" in Lebanon. After several dire threats, the hijackers freed the passengers, blew...
...detainees if the U.S. asked it to do so; after all, only a month ago, the Israelis had exchanged 1,150 prisoners, including some world-class terrorists, for three of their own servicemen. At the same time, there were reports that the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean had invoked a "radio silence" on its movements -- a possible sign of action to come. As of Sunday night, there were further reports of military activity around Cyprus and of the departure of a U.S. naval vessel from the Israeli port of Haifa...
...because they had feared something worse, the emergence of a minority PASOK government, with the Communists holding the balance of parliamentary power. The Communists have frequently attacked Papandreou for failing to remove four U.S. military bases from Greece (the leases for the facilities, which are important for NATO's Mediterranean defense, come up for renewal in December 1988). Papandreou's triumph guaranteed that, as a French analyst put it, "there can be no Communist blackmail...
Some 40 miles east of Tripoli, a complex of white stone buildings sparkles in the sunlight. Beyond the main entrance a courtyard opens onto a verdant Mediterranean garden. One of the surrounding walls is decorated with a brightly colored, stylized representation of Mendeleev's periodic table, the catalog of the elements. The attractive complex, however, is neither a jet- setter's hideaway nor a university campus. An inscription within the periodic table proclaims, "The Revolution Forever!" and outside the gate soldiers mount guard. Welcome to Libya's Tajura Nuclear Research Center...