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...their own religious enclaves. Victor Kassir, president of Beirut's merchants' association, fears that "if the central district is left as a ruined no man's land, Beirut may de facto become partitioned permanently." One proposal: to bulldoze the entire 30-block area into the Mediterranean as landfill for a new skyscraper commercial district, leaving the old city center as a vast park with underground space for 6,000 cars...
...Egyptians to be eons ahead of their contemporaries. The Chinese of the period dwelt in houses of mud and thatch, contem porary Britons and Scandinavians lived like troglodytes in barrows, inhabitants of the Americas made do with skin tents, flimsy huts and caves. Technologically, the cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East were even more advanced. Mesopotamians and the people of the Indus Valley could cast metals to make tools and ornaments-and keep written records. Small wonder that even centuries later, the peoples of the Middle East looked askance at the West. While their culture was flowering, Europe...
...thousands of Soviet rockets and artillery shells. Then thousands of Soviet tanks, with dozens of motorized rifle divisions behind them, crash across the frontier into West Germany. Far to the south, Warsaw Pact forces blast into Turkey and through Yugoslavia toward Italy, while the Soviet Fleet moves in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic to neutralize NATO's warships...
Ever since the civil war broke out in Lebanon 18 months ago, Athens has taken over much of devastated Beirut's former role as the center of commerce and trade in the eastern Mediterranean. Now, as TIME'S Dean Brelis has learned, Athens is also substituting for Beirut as a center for a grimmer international enterprise-gunrunning. His report...
...sometimes even rocket launchers. According to one estimate, one out of every ten trucks entering Greece carries contraband weapons. Says Greece's Maritime Minister Alexandras Papadogonas: "The Greek seas are simply a corridor for the vast trade in arms that is now going on in the eastern Mediterranean." In all, at least 10,000 illegal weapons have been confiscated by Greek authorities since the beginning of this year. "A mere dribble," sniffs one Western intelligence analyst, who estimates that the number of weapons flowing illegally through Greek ports can run as high as tens of thousands each month...