Word: midmediterranean
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Meanwhile, the carriers Coral Sea and America, stationed in the midMediterranean, were steaming toward the coast of Libya. Between 5:20 and 6:20 p.m., close to 100 aircraft catapulted off their decks--18 A-6 and A-7 strike and strike-support craft, six F/A-18 fighters, 14 EA-6B electronic jamming planes and a variety of support craft. As the Air Force's F-111 squadron rounded the tip of Tunisia, it was skillfully integrated into the Navy's airborne armada by a single Air Force officer providing coordination from an airborne tanker...
...Maltese, however, fear independence for just the opposite reason, since the military bases supplied one-third of all income, employed one-sixth of the labor force - and have given Malta a living standard far beyond its means. With the missile age eroding the strategic value of Malta's midMediterranean location, they fear that independence can only hasten the process of decay...
...make available through Israel. "They will annihilate him," shrilled the Voice of the Arabs, and Cairo's newspaper ; Al Shaab urged the Palestinian Arabs to deal with Hussein as they had with his grandfather Abdullah, who was assassinated in 1951. Mrs. Meir had been on a ship in midMediterranean on her way to Marseilles and Paris the time of the alleged meeting. But the Voice's unlettered and excitable listeners in Jordan could be counted on not to know that...
Because of the crucial importance of the strongholds at each end of the Mediterranean, and also because the Italian promontory and islands jut down into midMediterranean, the Battle fell from the first into two major spheres, Western and Eastern. Last week Winston Churchill confirmed this division by referring specifically to "the Western Mediterranean Fleet...
Last time, with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...