Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two months Beirut has again been rocked by artillery duels between competing militia groups. The latest outburst of violence reached its climax last week on a warm Sunday afternoon when the Mediterranean was a deep, shadowy blue, with only a suggestion of surf, and the beaches were crowded. Suddenly, unaccountably, the Christians and Muslims both began to shell the area. The carnage: 20 dead and 270 wounded. How have the 1 million Beirutis been coping with the relentless destruction of their once beautiful city and the periodic slaughter of their people? Reports TIME Middle East Bureau Chief William Stewart...
...Moskva, a Soviet carrier, steamed closer to Lebanon in obvious support of the Syrian troops. At the same time, the aircraft carrier Independence and two other U.S. warships sailed through the Suez Canal into the eastern Mediterranean. The carrier Forrestal was also in the area, with a task force that included 1,500 U.S. Marines. The State Department instructed American embassy employees in Beirut to send their dependents home, and advised other Americans to leave. Calling U.S. diplomatic efforts to avert a conflict "a long shot," Secretary of State Alexander Haig warned gloomily: "Time is running...
...society. Ethnic differences, exacerbated by social inequalities, strain relations between the Ashkenazi Jews of Northern Europe and the Sephardi Jews of the Mediterranean and the Muslim world. Religious quarrels set observant Orthodox Jews against the secular values of less pious Israelis. Lawlessness in general has risen sharply in a nation unused to it, and a small but flourishing Israeli "Mafia" has become an embarrassing new entry in international organized crime. A restive younger generation has shown growing dissatisfaction with the lack of job opportunities, the disruptive effects of compulsory military service, housing shortages and the political process...
...Sephardi Jews and the often violent clashes between Orthodox and more secular Jews. The differences between Ashkenazim and Sephardim are ancient and real. The original Sephardim were the powerful Jews of Moorish Spain, who were expelled from the country in 1492 and dispersed to North Africa, the eastern Mediterranean and Asia. (A smaller, later wave, who had taken temporary refuge in Portugal, later migrated to The Netherlands, Britain and the Americas...
...Word and the scheming princes of the Roman Empire. Peter and Paul (CBS, April 12 and 14) covers the crucial three decades after the death of Jesus, when a Galilean fisherman solidified his authority over the church, and a Cilician Jew spread Christ's teachings throughout the Mediterranean world. Masada (ABC, April 5-8) begins a few years later and chronicles the last desperate stand, in a Judean fortress, of 960 Jews against the more than 10,000 soldiers and Jewish captives of the Roman Tenth Legion. In achievement, though, the two shows are worlds apart: one is standard...