Word: mediterraneans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many dislocations caused by the Algerian war is the flight of European refugees across the Mediterranean to France. An estimated 80,000 have already arrived. Hundreds more line up daily in Oran and Algiers to be carried to safety in French air force planes. To leave means defying the terrorists of the Secret Army Organization, who have decreed death for Europeans departing without an S.A.O. "visa." In a desperate effort to keep the 1,000,000 European population from dwindling further, the S.A.O.last week blew up the control tower at Algiers' airport...
Almost from takeoff. Operation Tidal Wave lost the necessary ingredient of surprise ; the Germans had cracked the Allied code and tracked the planes all the way to the target. Over the Mediterranean, the lead Liberator carrying the mission navigator suddenly staggered out of formation and crashed into the ocean. It was a disastrous mishap: hours later the lead wave took a wrong heading just short of the target, and Operation Tidal Wave began to disintegrate into chaos...
...Record. This unlikely craft was not built until after World War II. The first model was ready in 1948, when Pro fessor Piccard was 64. In it, he and his son Jacques descended 6,889 ft-under the Mediterranean, more than doubling the depth record (3,028 ft.) of William Beebe's cable-lowered bathysphere. On a later voyage in 1953, the elderly but still tough professor cruised the improved bathy scaphe* Trieste along the bottom off the west coast of Italy, more than...
...Bella and his companions to Morocco, but both the French government and the F.L.N. feared that Salan's Secret Army Organization might attempt to re capture him. F.L.N. intelligence reported that the S.A.O. had at least seven Mystere jet fighters ready to intercept any flight across the Mediterranean...
Died. Juan Alberto March y Ordinas, 81. Spanish Croesus (estimated fortune: $300 million to $1 billion) who was often called "the last pirate of the Mediterranean" and who bankrolled Francisco Franco's climb to dictatorship; of injuries sustained two weeks ago when his Cadillac crashed head on into a banking competitor's car; in Madrid. Though he was born penniless on Majorca and remained illiterate until the age of 40, hawk-featured March (pronounced Mark) scaled from stevedore to smuggler to shipowner, won over the Spanish tobacco monopoly, sold to both sides during both World Wars, gained control...