Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...former wife, were tailing him last Sunday near Poolesville, Md., some 20 miles northwest of Washington, when he stopped his car to toss a bag of trash beside a tree. Mixed with the rubbish were more than 120 classified documents dealing with the movements of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean. When the agents arrested Walker early the next morning, the FBI said, he was carrying a map of clandestine drop points in the Washington area, places where a spy could leave documents to be retrieved by a contact. One of those drops was the tree on the Maryland road...
...fever in 1610 at 39 in Porto Ercole, then a malarial Spanish enclave on the coast north of Rome. The last four years of his life were one long paranoiac flight from police and assassins; on the run, working under pressure, he left magnificently realized, death-haunted altarpieces in Mediterranean seaports from Naples to Valletta to Palermo. He killed one man with a dagger in the groin during a ball game in Rome in 1606, and wounded several others, including a guard at Castel Sant'Angelo and a waiter whose face he cut open in a squabble about artichokes...
...Spain's chagrin, the British have possessed the Mediterranean fortress since 1704, when British Admiral Sir George Rooke seized the 2.25-sq.-mi. peninsula during the War of Spanish Succession. Gibraltar's residents (now 31,183) have rebuffed repeated Spanish attempts to reclaim the territory. In 1969, Spanish Dictator General Francisco Franco cut land, sea and telephone links with the colony. His intention: literally to starve Gibraltar's inhabitants into agreeing to a reunion with Spain. But the Gibraltarians, determined to remain under British rule, turned to nearby Morocco for supplies...
...multitude of artifacts already examined are invaluable, not simply for their rarity but for what they will reveal about the seagoing life of the Mediterranean 34 centuries ago. Before the advent of marine archaeology, notes Bass, "we knew more about the safety pins and sewers of Athens than we did about the ships that made Athens great." The hull of this wreck, for example, tells much about shipbuilding techniques. Apparently the vessel was constructed by building the outer shell first, then adding ribs for reinforcement, the same method utilized 1,000 years later. Bass surmises that the wreck will disclose...
...bring light to an area of archaeology that has long been obscure. The age of the previous oldest hull was a thousand years younger than this one, and suggests that nautical technology in ancient times changed glacially. Says Bass: "These bones of the wreck push back our knowledge of Mediterranean shipbuilding by nearly a millennium." -By Richard Stengel. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington