Word: mediterraneans
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...liner's size, speed and facilities made it "uniquely suited to carry a substantial number of troops, who must be kept fit and ready for operations should they be required." Few people, even among the 1,700 would-be passengers whose 13-day cruise from Southampton to the Mediterranean had been abruptly canceled, quarreled with that as sertion. The QE2 can make the 8,000-mile voyage to the Falklands in about ten days at a speed of 28.5 knots (or 32.8 land miles per hour). Its speed gives it the capability of escaping from an attack...
Perhaps the saddest scene in the Sinai was the ruins of Yamit, the Mediterranean coastal settlement (pop. 2,400 at its 1977 peak) that the Israelis destroyed with bulldozers before leaving. Previously the government had hinted that this was necessary to prevent the Israeli settlers from returning to it or the Egyptians from inheriting a city dangerously close to the Israeli border. Last week, however, some Israelis complained that the matter had been settled by Begin and Sharon without consulting the Cabinet or any ministerial committee. Said a puzzled Israeli general: "We should have left Yamit intact and handed...
...midweek, however, the Israeli Cabinet voted to proceed with the Sinai withdrawal on schedule. Soon after that, Israeli soldiers began to remove by force the first of the 2,500 Israeli protesters who had remained in the Sinai settlement of Yamit, a once pleasant town on the Mediterranean coast. In an exceedingly well-planned and carefully executed operation by the Israeli armed forces, the holdouts were removed without any deaths or serious injuries. Bulldozers continued to dismantle most of the last signs of the Israeli occupation-the buildings, streets, even the palm trees and vegetable gardens that the Israelis...
...restaurants of America were almost exclusively French. Today, on the smart streets of Manhattan, Washington, Chicago and Beverly Hills, three-star cafes are filled with the pungent aromas of Naples and Bologna. Pasta vincit ora/na/Not only the familiar, plebeian spaghetti, macaroni and ravioli, but more than 150 forms of Mediterranean batter, from agnolotti to ziti, have landed in fancy dress on elegant menus. Indeed, just about everywhere, restaurants and cooking schools dedicated to those al dente squares and rounds and ribbons of pearly paste are subverting meat-and-taters America. Exclaims Master Cook James Beard: "It's a pasta...
...ancient city is eternally new. In this magical place, sacred to three religions, the slopes outside the Jaffa Gate are ablaze with orange tulips, and rows of golden hyacinths sprout beneath the outstretching arms of the Moses Montefiore windmill. An unusual sight among the orange trees of the Mediterranean? "Ah, yes," a handsome Israeli woman sighs, "the Dutch sent us 100,000 bulbs when they moved away their embassy. So we planted them...