Word: mediterraneans
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...Soviet-made missiles, some of which are manned by Russian crews, are deployed in scattered batteries in a 50-mile-thick belt that arches from Alexandria on the Mediterranean southward some 180 miles to the Gulf of Suez. Missile batteries have also been set up around major Egyptian airfields. In addition to the relatively old-fashioned SA2, which was familiar to U.S. pilots over North Viet Nam and can effectively strike only planes flying above 3,500 feet, the Soviet Union has installed the new SA-3, which is designed to hit low-flying aircraft...
Lebanese jet fighters scrambled after the slow propeller-driven Martin, but it managed to escape them. Finally, after flying an erratic course over the Mediterranean, the plane was forced to make a landing to refuel at Heraklion airport in Crete. There, police at once arrested the five men aboard, including the pilot, former U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel John Moore, 50, and Copilot Philip Amos, 30. Crete police also seized 13 bags of hashish worth about $4,000,000 on the American market...
Despite his fervent pan-Arabism, however, Gaddafi is careful to maintain Libya's assertive independence. Though he has bought more than 100 tanks from Russia, he has refused a Soviet request to establish a naval base at Tobruk that would serve Russia's Mediterranean fleet. British advisers still instruct Libya's small navy, and a dozen Libyan pilots are being trained in France to fly the 110 Mirage jet fighters that Gaddafi bought from Paris. The French may be asked to run the former U.S. air force base near Tripoli...
...poses the question "Who plucked the rose before it bloomed?' Is it a success of West Germany's Ostpolitik or Soviet WestpolitikT' London's Economist pointed out that while the Russians talk peace in Europe, they are extending their sphere of influence in Asia, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean and the South Atlantic. "This is not the behavior of a country looking for a settlement of its arguments with other people," said the Economist. "It is the behavior of a power out to maximize its own position in the world...
...highlights of the Newark show is Monet's relatively unknown Cabane de Douanier à Pourville, painted in 1882. Faithful to his impressionistic concern with light and color, Monet soaks the scene in sunlight. The Mediterranean, glimpsed from a hill, is cool and inviting, spreading out before the eye in a blaze of blue. Except for a few puffs of cloud, the sky is empty. Monet used only bright colors in this painting-reds, blues, greens and yellows -and he painted thin. The effect is purposely misleading; the viewer suspects that underneath the pigment lies not canvas, but porcelain...