Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Malta ended its decade-old "special relationship" with Libya, Italy offered the strategic island republic economic aid in exchange for guaranteed neutrality. The deal moved Malta a step closer to the West, and it signaled Italy's decision to defend Western interests in the Mediterranean...
...would imperil Israel's existence. "This is our country, this is our land," he later added. "Here our civilization was born." But he challenged Mitterrand to launch a peace initiative of his own and to work for a nonaggression pact that would include all the countries of the Mediterranean basin...
Salt routes crisscrossed the globe. One of the most traveled led from Morocco south across the Sahara to Timbuktu. Ships bearing salt from Egypt to Greece traversed the Mediterranean and the Aegean. Herodotus describes a caravan route that united the salt oases of the Libyan desert. Venice's glittering wealth was attributable not so much to exotic spices as to commonplace salt, which Venetians exchanged in Constantinople for the spices of Asia. In 1295, when he first returned from Cathay, Marco Polo delighted the Doge with tales of the prodigious value of salt coins bearing the seal...
...unfortunate and regrettable that in a special advertising section in the Jan. 4 edition of TIME, a map of the eastern Mediterranean portrayed Cyprus as a dismembered country in orange and green, the very same colors used to identify Greece and Turkey. In view of the circumstances, the impression conveyed to the average reader by the advertisement is that the Republic of Cyprus does not have the status of an independent state but is divided between, and is part of each of its two neighbors. This is incompatible with the actual and universally accepted legal situation...
After the shots, Newton recalls, "I saw this man running toward me. I looked down and saw a gun in his right hand and froze." The man, says Newton, had "longish black hair and what I could only describe as Mediterranean features: dark skin, suntanned, but not black." The man passed within four feet of Newton, who ran in pursuit, taking two photographs from behind before the fugitive disappeared into the columned archways surrounding the square...