Word: adana
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Among a people who sing folk songs of their bandits, death is likely to make a hero of Kocero. In the Turkish city of Adana, youngsters have already formed a "Kocero Admirers' Club." And despite repeated government statements that he is dead, Kocero lives still for the peasants of southeastern Turkey...
...Torrejon, Spain, then the 3,100-mile leg to Dezful, Iran, with frequent in-flight refueling by Strategic Air Command KC-135 tankers. Some 2,500 paratroopers of the 101st Airborne Division boarded twelve Military Air Transport Service C-135 jets at Kentucky's Fort Campbell, landed at Adana, Turkey, in a miserable rain. There they switched to C-130s, their usual jump planes. From all over the U.S., various cargo craft headed east with combat equipment...
...Detachment 10-10 at Adana. Turkey...
When Prosecutor Roman A, Rudenko (who was chief Soviet prosecutor at the Nlirnberg war crimes trials) asked the size of his unit at Adana. Powers hesitated briefly before answering. "There are six civilian pilots." But he freely gave the name of the unit's commander. Colonel William Shelton, and equally freely confessed that, soaring far above the range of Russian fighters, he made "one or two" trips along the Soviet border in 1956, ''six or eight" in 1957. "ten or fifteen" in 1958 and in 1959, and "one or two" in 1960. When the big order finally...
TURKISH OIL FIND near Adana by Socony Mobil yielded biggest flow (240 bbl. a day), best quality oil yet found in Turkey. The gusher rouses hopes that oilmen have struck edge of vast reservoir whose oil might end a major import drain on Turkish economy...