Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explained, a crêpe machine, capable of making eight crêpes a minute. It will make you an Oriental crêpe, a Mediterranean crêpe, a crêpe Reuben, 30 different kinds of crêpes in all. She wants to become the McDonald's of the crêpe industry-"People get tired of hamburgers"-but she cannot find the money...
...placid Maronite monastery perched high above the Mediterranean, Patriarch Antoine Pierre Cardinal Khoraiche had convened a meeting of religious leaders from Lebanon's Christian communities. Even as they discussed the worsening crisis besetting their country, the distant thud of heavy artillery sounded in the hills beyond, and reports circulated of mistreatment of Muslims by Christians and of Christians by Muslims. Before parting, the clerics called for a combined effort by Lebanon's religious leaders to seek an end to sectarian bloodletting. Within hours, preparations were under way for an extraordinary "spiritual summit" between Christians and Muslims...
...land that through most of its history has been overrun and ruled by outsiders, from Egyptian viceroys and Babylonian governors to Ottoman mutessarifs and French commissioners. In ancient times, it was inhabited by the Phoenicians, who took their name from the purple dye they plied around the Mediterranean. Later it became part of that smaller region known as the Holy Land. The cedars of Lebanon were celebrated by the Psalmists, and its mountains provided inspiration for religious mystics...
Moreover, the Druze victory at Khalde broke all connections between the remnants of the Lebanese Army and the Marines at Beirut airport. The Marines' encampment now is ringed north, east and south by Muslim militiamen; on the west the Marines can reach the Mediterranean only by way of a narrow strip of coastal highway between Druze and Amal checkpoints...
...Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does in fact hale its neighbors, such antipathy certainly cannot be labelled blind. There are still far too many who echo the late Egyptian President Gamal Abdul Nasser's infamous pledge to drive the state of Israel into the Mediterranean Sea, a vehemence unmatched by any Israeli head of state of state past of present...