Word: mediterraneans
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Bounded by the Mediterranean and Red seas and the gulfs of Aqaba and Suez, the Sinai peninsula is a generally desolate stretch of sand dunes and granite mountains that is twice the size of Maryland. The desert is more hospitable to scorpions and camels than to men. Apart from Bedouins who wander the dunes and camp in the scattered oases, and soldiers who cautiously patrol old battlefields, Sinai's inhabitants hug the coastlines. Yet for all the peninsula's vast emptiness and apparent lack of natural wealth, Israel appears to be determined to hold on to a third...
Israel has constructed a series of settlements, military installations and other major projects that form an arcing line from the Rafah salient on the Mediterranean to El Tur on the Gulf of Suez. The line (see map) looks suspiciously like a national boundary...
...associates to undertake more of this work, which is assuming something of a ministry; for it is plain that the word we bring is something that many young people have longed to hear, namely that America is a part of the great Western World whose roots lie in the Mediterranean and whose branches lie on far-flung continents...
...after his Annapolis years, the Chicago-born Turner has logged an impressive career both at sea and on land. Most of his ship time has been served aboard destroyers; after receiving his two rear-admiral stars in 1970, he commanded a cruiser-destroyer flotilla that stalked the Soviets' Mediterranean squadron. The following year he went to the Pentagon as the Navy's director of systems analysis...
...want to talk to you about maintaining the level of American troops on West German soil, on better coordination of conventional weaponry as a deterrent, on the problems of declining defense budgets and increased Soviet military pressure, not only in Central Europe but in the far north and the Mediterranean as well. In sum, they will be looking for your reassurance that the U.S. is determined to maintain its status as the Western world's defender...