Word: mediterraneans
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...greatest powers of the day. The Khmer Rouge's bad luck was to be living next door to an equally warlike Viet Nam. Otherwise it would be killing to this day, assuming there were any Cambodians left to kill. Gaddafi had the misfortune of being hard by the Mediterranean, an American lake. And Idi Amin's butchery came to an end after he had trespassed once too often on neighboring Tanzania, which muscled its way into Uganda and threw...
When Johnny Carson sought to escape gawkers and paparazzi on his fourth honeymoon, he and his new bride, Alexis Maas, chose to cruise the Mediterranean by chartering the regal Parts V, a $6.5 million, 147-ft. world- class motor yacht. When renowned Manhattan Jeweler Harry Winston wanted to lay some choice diamonds before J. Paul Getty Jr. and Henry Ford II down in Palm Beach, Fla., he decided to rent the Atlantique as a 131-ft. floating showcase. And when Magazine Mogul Malcolm Forbes wants to mix celebrities like Barbara Walters and Henry Kissinger with advertising tycoons, he lures them...
...region's producers, worried about the vulnerability of tankers, are doubling their capacity this year, creating a network of pipelines that will be able to carry almost half of all gulf oil to Mediterranean and Red Sea ports without a drop of it passing through troubled waters...
Last week Iraqi oil flowed into new lines through Turkey to the Mediterranean port of Iskenderun, boosting export capacity from 1 million bbl. of oil a day to 1.5 million bbl. In April, Saudi Arabia increased the volume of Petroline, its four-year-old link between Saudi and Iraqi oil fields and the Red Sea port of Yanbu, from 1.8 million bbl. to 3.2 million bbl. In addition, plans are under way for a $2 billion Iraqi line, called IPSA-2, capable of carrying 1.6 million bbl. to Yanbu...
...replica of the fabled trireme, the 170- oar warship that brought glory to ancient Athens, undergoes sea trials in the Mediterranean...