Word: mediterraneans
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While this attitude is not a particularly positive one, it appears the most expedient at the moment. Without Tito in Yugoslavia the USSR would be certain of its much-sought-after Mediterranean port, and the free world would lose a valuable, if not respected friend...
...Bizry, army chief of staff, said "We believe the planes are not coming from Turkey but from the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean because this fleet is working together with the massing of Turkish troops on the Syrian border...
Tardily but impressively, a simulated mushroom cloud rose over the coastal hills of Thracian Turkey. Huge amphibious tanks churned up golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO...
History and strategic portent lay around them, bright as the Mediterranean sunshine, as the Marines fanned out widely in five-man teams in accordance with the Corps' new antinuclear tactics of "separation and concentration." Flying in, they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open...
Comes the crackup. One day some bravoes in the neighborhood make sport of Marina on the street in the traditional Mediterranean manner. Heartsick, she runs home and sinks into her young man's arms. As a matter of fact, her knees are so weak with love, or something, that she sinks almost to the floor. Naturally, the young man invites her into the same bushes her mother has been using. Unable to refuse, she moans: "I want...