Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Giovanni Spadolini felt secure enough to confront 57.5 million fellow Italians with a sobering economic warning. The country is sliding into recession at an alarming rate he said in a televised speech a month ago. Unless inflation is brought under control, warned Spadolini, Italy could end up as a Mediterranean banana republic...
Kaposi's sarcoma is a rare cancer that appears as violet patches on the skin and infiltrates the digestive and lymph systems. In the past, its victims have been mainly children in equatorial Africa and elderly people of Jewish or Mediterranean extraction. But now the disease is taking an alarming toll on another distinct group, American homosexual males. In the past six months, the disease that usually afflicts fewer than two people out of 3 million Americans has stricken 95 individuals, more than 90% of them homosexual men, most of whom are in their 30s. The death rate...
Energy analysts speculate that pressure from Washington may have played a part in Exxon's decision. After U.S. Navy planes shot down two Libyan jets over the Mediterranean last summer, the State Department sent a letter to American oil companies calling for their cooperation with the Administration's efforts to cut off U.S. relations with Gaddafi. Says Elihu Bergman, executive director of Americans for Energy Independence: "I'm sure that some jawboning took place between the Administration and Exxon." While the State Department took no credit for Exxon's move, one pleased official said that...
...withdrawal from the Sinai next April, when this northern strip of the desert is scheduled to revert to Egypt under the terms of the Camp David peace accords. The focus of the campaign is Yamit, an Israeli settlement of 2,500 situated on a strand of sand beside the Mediterranean. Settled six years ago, Yamit even now is no bigger than a college campus. Behind a 110-ft. wire-mesh antiterrorist fence that looks incongruous in such a peaceful setting, Yamit's residents have skillfully managed to turn their town into a blooming oasis of lush, neatly manicured gardens...
...bases service NATO craft and monitor communications in the eastern Mediterranean...