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...odyssey. Passengers aboard Alia (Royal Jordanian Airline) Caravelles are subjected to a thorough and intimate antihijack body check; still, four mid-air hijackings have been foiled, while another plane was shot at by anti-Jordanian guerrillas while taking off. After leaving Beirut, Alia Caravelles must fly out over the Mediterranean toward Cyprus and then to Mersa Matruh, swing inland over Egypt to Luxor, turn again to cross the Red Sea and fly north over Saudi Arabia to reach Amman. The nonstop flight lasts four hours and consumes nearly every drop of fuel. "It is just within range with nothing...
Some of the frescoes recently unearthed on Santorini and put on public display at the Archaeological Museum at Athens are shown on the following color pages. Beyond any doubt, they surpass all others found so far in the Mediterranean region. The frescoes of Knossos, for example, are less delicate and free, less motionful and rhythmical than these. As for the celebrated splendors of a later age found at Pompeii, they would seem dry and artificial if set side by side with the Santorini frescoes. These new discoveries show Bronze Age civilization at its peak. The doomed people of Santorini were...
...molten hail produced by Santorini's deafening eruption must have rendered all lands within a 100-mile radius (including central Crete) uninhabitable. Then came the incursion of the sea into the immense lava boil that had been Santorini-probably causing water to recede temporarily from shores around the Mediterranean. As the immense volume of water that had converged on Santorini rushed outward again in a giant wave, it smashed harbors and flooded large districts around the Mediterranean basin. The great sea empire of Minoan Crete simply vanished in the wake of Santorini's destruction...
...question of the survival of our aircraft carriers in the event of war would not be whether they would survive the first blow, but rather how many seconds they would take to sink. The Russian guided-missile cruisers constantly shadowing U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean make those ships the "sitting ducks" the Russians call them. I agree with Brigadier Hunt's analysis that our Navy is second-rate; it is old and outgunned. A World War II Navy cannot maintain the peace in the 1970s...
...Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America, the informal talks produced, according to Father Robert Stephanopoulos, "a real sense of affinity we cannot always feel with Western Christians." Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, who originally suggested the dialogues, cited the two groups' common religious-ethnic heritage and Mediterranean background. Indeed, said Tanenbaum, though Greek and Hebrew philosophies are often regarded as opposites, rabbinic Judaism was actually a "creative synthesis" that absorbed some thought patterns and institutions of Hellenism...