Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of these crimes were apparently engineered by a small band of Greek and Lebanese merchant shippers operating from Piraeus and other Mediterranean ports. But the sinking of the Salem may have set a new precedent. Explains Eric Ellen, chief constable of the Port of London: "The Salem is the first such incident involving oil, but we knew it would happen because of the attractiveness of the cargo. It takes an event like the Salem to make people realize how horrific this problem has become...
...their onetime colonies and protectorates in Africa: last year, for example, Paris dispatched troops to help Chad put down a Libya-backed rebellion. Shortly after last week's clash in Gafsa, three French Navy warships-a cruiser, a frigate and an escort vessel -slipped out of their Mediterranean base at Toulon. The government claimed they were headed for maneuvers near Crete, but officials suggested that the ships would first "show themselves" off the Tunisian coast. In addition, the French have apparently sent transport planes and helicopters to Tunisia. Washington reinforced Paris' implicit warning to Libya against destabilizing Tunisia...
...orchestrating a "good cop, bad cop" approach to the summit. In an effort to end the stalemate, Sadat offered a new two-part proposal: an overall agreement on autonomy for the occupied territories, which would be first put into effect in Gaza. The 146-sq.-mi. strip along the Mediterranean was under Egyptian administration from 1948 until 1967, and does not carry the emotional and religious overtones for Israeli nationalists that the West Bank does. Begin promised that he would discuss the proposal with his Cabinet. "Autonomy is a novelty," he said before he left Aswan, "and we must...
...leading species, origanally cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, that is responsible for all the world's great wines. Even in Europe, however, vinifera vines are grafted on the hardy rootstock of native American Vitis labrusca and Vitis rotundifolia...
...dunes, people stroking and stroking and stroking ancient magical rocks, and bicycle wheels spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning. There's also a male peacock in there every once in a while for reasons which the director has evidently sealed in a bottle and thrown into the Mediterranean. The problem with all this is that the form of the film consistently interrupts any possibility of emotional connection with a character...