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...most extreme example of such a transformative war is the Six-Day War. It changed Israel from a weak, marginal refuge for refugees, clinging to the < shores of the Mediterranean, to the very symbol of self-reliance, power and valor. (An image subsequently transformed, of course, by ensuing violent upheavals, namely the Yom Kippur War, Lebanon and the intifadeh.) It is too early to assume that America will enjoy a similar triumph in the gulf war. But if this war should conclude half as decisively as the Six-Day War, America will not be the same...
...addition, pentagon sources said yesterday that U.S. submarines, operating from the depths of the Mediterranean and red seas, are continuing to fire Tomahawk cruise missiles at targets inside Iraq...
...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
...link between pollution and plague has shown up. In a 1988 report to the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, investigators suggested that a rash of dolphin deaths on America's East Coast might have resulted from bacterial infections that overwhelmed the animals' pollution-damaged immune systems. Environmentalists believe the Mediterranean case is potentially more serious, since it is happening during fall, one of the dolphins' prime breeding seasons. The disease could also spread to other mammals, including monk seals, pilot whales and sperm whales...
Unfortunately, the Mediterranean is so filthy that even a major cleanup effort would make little difference for years. The animals may not have that much time. There is no known cure for the virus, and scientists and environmentalists alike fear that dolphins could become no more than a memory in the Mediterranean...