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Socialist Gains. Finding political accommodation that would lead to reforming the coalition was more difficult because of recently shifting power balances. Scarcely hours before the Villa Madama summit, results were announced from regional elections on the island of Sardinia, 125 miles out in the KEYSTONE Mediterranean. Socialists and Communists had been expected to win handsomely and they did, thus continuing a national voting trend to the left that became obvious last month in a referendum over retaining Italy's divorce law. On Sardinia the two leftist parties drew abreast of the Christian Democrats for the first time since World...
...When the train reached Alexandria, Nixon got a reception even more boisterous and friendly than the one he had experienced in Cairo. A million or more people crammed the sidewalks, perched on the sea walls and crowded the balconies of the sprawling, seedy old Mediterranean city to cheer as the President passed by on his ten-mile motorcade. Lines of policemen on motorcycles flanked the presidential limousine, and four Jeeps full of troops armed with automatic rifles followed the Secret Service car in the procession...
Syria is potentially the most self-sufficient of the Arab nations. "We are a nation of ample natural resources," says Mohammed Imadi, the American-educated Economy Minister. "We have the land, oil, phosphates, iron ore, the right geographical location and a hardworking people." A magnificent sweep of Mediterranean coast is waiting to be developed; at the moment, Latakia is the only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush...
Syria also profits from its geographic position at the "waist" of the Middle East, between the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. Lebanese and Kuwaiti trucks, among others, carry goods from the port of Beirut through Syria to merchants in the gulf sheikdoms. In addition to its own growing oil revenues, Syria gets an estimated $125 million in fees from the oil pipeline from Iraq to Banias and the Tapline from Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese port of Sidon...
...Love's Labour's Lost anticipates As You Like It, Pericles anticipates The Tempest. Shipwrecks are what pass for plots here as the pseudoclassical hero washes up, island by island, it seems, across the Aegean and the Mediterranean, losing and finally regaining his wife and daughter in the process. Before their reunion, the wife becomes presumably the only matron in a tem ple of vestal virgins, the daughter certainly the only virgin in a brothel - peaks of survival which may outdo even Pericles' own. Shakespeare, the scholars say, wrote only the last three acts, and perhaps ought...