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Sailors with the U.S. Sixth Fleet call it chicken of the sea. It is a seaborne version of the highway hot-rodders' "chicken" that is frequently played in the crowded Mediterranean by Soviet and American warships. Typically, a Russian vessel will dart and weave among U.S. ships, trying to frighten their skippers into turning sharply to avoid collision. These episodes usually end harmlessly-but not always...
...catch the remainder. In practice, this means that foreigners will be prohibited from taking species that are popular with Americans but will still be able to take limited amounts of fish like hake, which is popular in Eastern Europe, and squid, which is prized in Japan and in Mediterranean countries. The foreign take from American waters will be limited to 2 million metric tons, down from an estimated 3.3 million metric tons taken in 1974. U.S. fishermen will be allowed to net 1 million metric tons of fish this year, v. 910,000 metric tons harvested...
...rarely grasps its lyrical magic. Winston Churchill visited Uganda in 1907 and called it "the pearl of Africa." There, Lake Victoria flows northward to form the White Nile, whose waters boil over the majestic Murchison (now Kabalega) Falls at the start of their long journey to the Mediterranean. The Ruwenzori mountain range, better known as the Mountains of the Moon, rise to the southwest, while herds of game roam the green plains and rolling hills. Elysium was never more heavenly or tranquil...
...offer is hard to resist. How, one might ask, could Adler nominate Eliot's pretentious The Cocktail Party and not his superb Four Quartets? If there is room for the historical musings of Toynbee, why is there no room for Braudel's monumental The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II? And if this list is supposed to update the original of 25 years ago, why does it recognize so few living writers? Bellow and Solzhenitsyn are admirable, but where is the magic of Grass's The Tin Drum or Robert Lowell...
While Cyrus Vance toured the Middle East last week, President Carter's special envoy Clark Clifford, 70, flew to another eastern Mediterranean trouble spot. His mission: to bolster U.S. relations with Greece ; and Turkey and to help resolve the longstanding impasse between Greeks and Turks on Cyprus. In 1974, following the Athens-inspired coup against Prelate-President Makarios, Turkish troops invaded the island, and the savage war left Cyprus with an internal frontier of barbed wire, mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south...