Word: mediterraneans
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...President Reagan promptly confirmed that he had agreed "in principle" to contribute a contingent of servicemen, most probably about 1,000 Marines, to a temporary, multinational force that would oversee the withdrawal of some 6,000 P.L.O. guerrillas from West Beirut. At week's end five ships from the Mediterranean-based Sixth Fleet, with 1,800 Marines aboard, were poised just over the horizon, about 60 miles from Beirut...
...world's wealthiest countries, Fahd has in recent years become something of a workaholic, although he still keeps palatial mansions in Riyadh, London, Marbella, Geneva and on the Riviera, as well as a 3,600-ton yacht, The Atlantis, in which he cruises the Mediterranean. Says Arabist Peter Iseman: "Fahd has a conspicuously more global vision than a great majority of his brothers. Yet being with him is similar to taking a warm bath: he is extremely agreeable, warm, charming, witty." Friends say he is especially devoted to his son Abdul Aziz, 9, and sometimes interrupts business meetings...
...very largely that of painting's struggle to be seen on a level with literature or philosophy. This entailed confronting the source of all great artistic prototypes, Rome, which supplied models both antique and modern. The chief modern one was Caravaggio, who had died on a malarial Mediterranean beach at the start of the 17th century and left behind him a vast legacy of influence all over Europe. To paint commonplace models in tavern settings or caves of gloom, to infuse biblical subjects with an exacting realism and directness, to drive the mincing preciosity of late mannerism...
...attack-then at some point in the future the conflict will expand. In short, we stand on the eve of a new Arab-Israeli war. The superpowers have got to head it off, just as we stopped the massacre in 1973. Our fleet is standing by in the Mediterranean. So is the American fleet. Both are moving in the same direction, toward Lebanon. Doesn't this situation compel us to consider what needs to be done to put an end to this conflict...
...Atlantis in better days. No land was ever luckier, more cosmopolitan. If you drove in from the east, out of the deserts of Jordan, Iraq or Syria, Lebanon was the coolest, greenest, richest land in the imagination of Allah. You climbed the Lebanon Mountains, and suddenly beheld the Mediterranean. Its deep blue waters played in the eye against the snow on the tops of the mountains. The air was dense with the scent of thyme and cedar...