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National Geographic : 1987 Nov
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THIS IS A MILITARY INSTALLATION," glowered the officer. "It sure is," I agreed. "This port called the tune in the Mediterranean. It was Siileyman the Magnifi cent's advance base in his naval war with Spain." I had emerged from the walled maze of the Casbah that spills down the slopes to the old harbor of Algiers. The modern Algeri an city swings to the right in a gleaming white curve around a vastly larger port protected by artificial breakwaters. Fishing boats snuggled in picturesque array in the 16th-century harbor that had sent out lean corsair galleys to scour the Mediterranean for fat prizes. I raised my camera. A young soldier arrested mlls1111118l111111111 Ullr~rrrrr~sslsss~P
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