Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month. "We are up to our ears in projects," Demirel says excitedly. "There is plenty of copper, lead and zinc in eastern Anatolia. There is some oil. There are magnificent stands of hardwood and softwood timber. Tobacco is already thriving around Izmir. There is great potential for livestock. Our Mediterranean coastal beaches could bring us $100 million a year from tourism...
...network of defensive missiles in a C-shape, with the open mouth of the C facing eastward to the vast China landmass. The system thus would be athwart practically every path that U.S. missiles -launched from silos in the continental U.S. or from aboard submarines in the Atlantic or Mediterranean -would have to cross in order to hit major cities and installations in the Soviet Union...
...Meteorologist Leo Krown has predicted that through January, local rainfall will be below normal -and the Brooklyn-born scientist speaks with authority. In each of the past 16 years, he reports in the Journal of Applied Meteorology, his new method for long-range winter rainfall forecasts for the eastern Mediterranean area would have been 100% accurate...
Arctic Spillover. Whenever a trough hovered over the eastern Mediterranean in the vicinity of Cyprus during most of October, while another hung over the Atlantic off the coast of Spain (the position of the troughs this year), Israel's rainfall was from 20% to 55% below normal for the next three months. When the Mediterranean trough showed up near Italy during October and the corresponding Atlantic trough was located off the U.S. coast, Israeli winter rainfall was from 20% to 60% above normal. Krown also determined that in each of the three years of normal rainfall during the November...
...Western oil consortiums. The loudest voice has come from Syria, which has no wells but makes do with the next-best thing: a 305-mile stretch of the pipeline through which the Iraq Petroleum Co. pumps oil from its Iraq field to the Syrian port of Baniyas on the Mediterranean. Last week, after weeks of futile negotiations on new rates, Damascus seized the pipeline "to achieve the full rights of the people...