Word: mediterraneans
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...Turkey's 67 provinces, the left-leaning, 150,000-member national teachers union called a nationwide strike. The result: six people were killed and more than 3,500 students and teachers were detained in clashes between strikers and government forces in Istanbul, Ankara and the Mediterranean city of Adana. In Ankara, when police and troops pursued rioters into the teeming, jerry-built slums outside the city, some demonstrators opened fire on them with machine guns...
...leading species, origanally cultivated in the Mediterranean basin, that is responsible for all the world's great wines. Even in Europe, however, vinifera vines are grafted on the hardy rootstock of native American Vitis labrusca and Vitis rotundifolia...
Beyond the Shores of Tripoll: American Archaeology in the Eastern Mediterranean--Fogg Art Museum, through...
...some top Egyptians believe that the boycott will not last long, and may be softening already. In November, says one Sadat aide, the Saudis began sending "signals" that they would not undermine Egypt or the peace treaty; they would go on shipping oil through the canal and the Suez-Mediterranean pipeline, and the $2 billion that they and Kuwait have in the Central Bank of Egypt would not be pulled out. The reason, says the aide: "The Saudis shudder at what is happening in Iran. They are beginning to understand the meaning of peace...
...like the tactics of a parrot climbing a tree. First came Angola, then Congo Brazzaville, then Ethiopia, and afterward the Sahara. Step by step. If they get the Sahara, the Russians will have a window on the Atlantic, as they have always wanted, and the key to the Mediterranean. The American Sixth Fleet will have to sail back home and leave these seas to the Russian fleets...