Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vows, Charles and Diana should have departed the palace breakfast and started, via British Rail, on the first stage of their honeymoon. They will spend their first two days as husband and wife at Broadlands, once the home of Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Ahead, after their two-week Mediterranean cruise aboard the Britannia, lie the more serious duties of government and the more exacting chores of their official life together...
...Northern California the biological clock was ticking away. As helicopters began spraying the insecticide Malathion on infested areas just south of San Francisco, they were racing against the marvelous reproductive capacities of the tiny Mediterranean fruit fly: a mature female can produce 1,000 eggs over its two-month life span. Last week alone, the targeted area expanded from 120 to 140 to 180 sq. mi. and fears mounted that the fly was about to break out of the Bay Area and move into the lush farm lands of the San Joaquin Valley. The long-range worry: a federal quarantine...
...Ogden Nash Perhaps one reason was to test Jerry Brown. Last week, as swarms of voracious Mediterranean fruit flies in northern California threatened to bring a nationwide ban on shipments of fruits and vegetables from California's lush orchards and farm lands, the Democratic Governor faced one of the toughest decisions of his political career: whether to bow to California's $14 billion-a-year agriculture industry, which grows 40% of U.S. produce, or heed the angry voices of environmentalists, who have looked upon him as one of their chief political allies...
...Egyptians, one worrisome prospect concerns the final Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula, which is scheduled to take place next April. At that time, the agreement also calls for the removal of some 5,000 Israeli settlers who have moved into agricultural communes near the Mediterranean and into tourist centers along the Red Sea coast on the southern tip of the Sinai. Two of the parties to which Begin would be beholden in a coalition are in favor of keeping the settlers there. If a government crisis developed over the issue, the Israeli withdrawal might be delayed, thereby causing problems...
...improbably handsome archeology teacher and part-time adventurer to find the Ark before Hitler's henchmen do. After that, it's all pretty much irrelevant as far as plot goes. Suffice it to say Jones travels halfway around the world, through Nepal, Egyptian bazzars, through Cairo and the Mediterranean, flung headfirst into an impossible maze of threats, subterfuge and adventure...