Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walked up to the casket, he remembered how Morgan Perry used to speak to him: 'You Greeks with olive oil in your veins instead of blood,' he used to say, 'you come here to see what you can get out of us, you and those other Mediterranean niggers. You grab what you can, then go back with our money. Make it here, spend it there; take everything, give nothing. Tell me what you've given this country? I know what you've taken-I pay you every Saturday. It's our generosity against your...
...creation of an Iraqi Islamic Republic modeled on Iran's own. To moderate rulers throughout the Arab world, the threat was even more awesome: a rising wave of Islamic fundamentalism, reinforced by an Iranian victory in Iraq, that could topple Arab governments from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean...
...President Reagan promptly confirmed that he had agreed "in principle" to contribute a contingent of servicemen, most probably about 1,000 Marines, to a temporary, multinational force that would oversee the withdrawal of some 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut. At week's end five ships from the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet, with 1,800 Marines aboard, were poised just over the horizon, about 60 miles from Beirut...
With the walls down, one can clearly see the Mediterranean from the roof, not 500 yds. to the west. The mind sails it; first into the past, then north up the coast to where the past is now, to the besieged city with its sonic booms and rubbish fires and damaged children. It was for children this trip was taken in the first place. Two are known to be safely out of Lebanon. One is well in Beirut, though in a perilous position. The fourth is probably all right, in hiding with his mother, who will be protected...
...have agreed in principle to contribute a small contingent of U.S. personnel, subject to certain conditions," said the President in a Los Angeles speech to a gathering of legislators from 13 Western states. A battalion of 1,800 Marines, currently sailing with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, was ordered to prepare for possible deployment as part of a multinational peace-keeping force. Under the conditions laid down by Reagan, troops would be dispatched only if his special envoy, Philip Habib, can work out a peace arrangement among all the parties involved, and if at least one other nation, notably...