Word: mediterraneans
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Then there are the Likud politicians who warn that the recent events are all a plot by the P.L.O. to weaken Israel and set it up for an eventual push into the Mediterranean. In this suspicion, the Likud (Labor's main rival) is merely echoing the nagging doubts of many Israelis who are reluctant to suddenly embrace the P.L.O...
...risky? Then how about a getaway to the Gaza Strip? Most people think of this section of the Israeli-occupied territories as a wretched, raging refugee camp. But it also offers a gorgeous, unspoiled slice of Mediterranean beach. The residents of Gush Katif, a collection of Jewish settlements on the Strip, bid visitors to come and swim, thanks to a new road from the Israeli border enabling tourists to skirt rebellious Palestinian villages -- and thus reduce the risk of a Molotov cocktail through the windshield. Although Gush Katif's Palestinian laborers have twice turned on their employers and stabbed...
...students to appeal when their request for an extension is refused. Under pressure from the E.C., Spain requires visas for arrivals from Morocco. The Spanish have persuaded Morocco to take back its own citizens as well as others who illegally enter their country across the mouth of the Mediterranean...
...requires that 50% of each nation's programming be produced in the E.C. -- and the French, being French, go further, requiring that 40% of their TV shows be produced in France. Still, the glossy American product flutters in, and prevails. Beverly Hills, 90210 is wildly popular all over the Mediterranean; in South Africa, Major Dad (the hilarious story of a retrograde white militarist outnumbered in his own home) is a big hit. And MTV is now second only to God in omnipresence: people in 232 million homes around the world may now watch snarling guitarists and half- naked...
...river has its romance. Explorers once thought it could provide a quick path to China. Walt Whitman said the Mediterranean was its only rival in grandeur. T.S. Eliot, who was born in St. Louis, was surely inspired by the Mississippi when he referred to a river in his poem The Dry Salvages as "a big strong brown god." But poetry isn't appropriate at times like these. "You can't say the river is very charitable," says a tract attributed to Mark Twain, perhaps the Mississippi's most famous observer. "Except for the fact that the streets are quiet . . ., there...