Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...halt Iranian exports but only to be allowed to increase their own. Besides blocking Iraqi ships from using the gulf, Iran destroyed Iraq's main oil facilities at Fao in 1980. In 1982 Syria turned off the valve on Iraq's pipeline to the Mediterranean. Since then, Iraq has been exporting 3 only about 650,000 bbl. per day via pipeline through Turkey, I compared with a daily total of ; more than 3 million bbl. before the war. Iran, on the other hand, is still able to ship about 51.7 million...
...black paint, that seems to give access to a field behind the field. This enclosure may be strict-edged or fuzzily tremulous, but it always conveys the impression of architectural form-a window or a door, a passage from inside to outside. A painting like Summer Open with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, creates a strikingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means. The passages of tone in the paint, the variations of blue depth, drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon; it is as though a part of nature had been taken down...
...brought forth events sufficient to crowd aside the worries of tomorrow. To the Jews of Palestine this day brought a state of their own, the first in 1,878 years. To the British it brought the loss of a 10,460-square-mile base in the Mediterranean-and relief from a burden they had snatched up with imperial optimism 31 years ago. To the Arabs, it brought a tautening of determination and a more sober assessing of their chances for victory...
...history, since cease-fires are as much a fixture of the national life as the fighting. The Lebanese knew, far better than anyone else, that when the armies grew tired and the circumstances seemed propitious, there would be a cease-fire in Beirut and in the highlands overlooking the Mediterranean. But they also knew that it would be only a ceasefire, and not a peace. ? By William E. Smith. Reported Johanna McGeary/ Washington, William Stewart and Roberto Suro/ Beirut
...ships patrolling the Nicaraguan coast. He told us that two Marines had died in Lebanon a few hours earlier. A collective gasp went through the assembled crew. Half of it was from anger and sadness; half was worry that the ship would be sent straight to the Mediterranean. The men wanted their scheduled time in port, with their families and friends. Seven months is a long time. And there isn't much to see or do in the Indian Ocean...