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...Soviet Union and Syria. To guard their freedom, they keep 500,000 men under arms, and even with U.S. aid have a heavy defense burden. In addition, after centuries of feudalistic Ottoman rule, the Turks have tried to rush pell-mell into a modern industrial economy. Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes has spent more for public improvements than the economy could stand, and the Turkish economy today is plagued by inflation and hobbled by a shortage of consumer goods. The Turks have a word for it. The word is yok, which means, "There...
...suave, straight-backed U.S. career ambassador headed secretly across town to Washington National Airport one day last week and flew to Turkey on an urgent mission. Loy Wesley Henderson. 65, the State Department's ace troubleshooter for the Middle East, was off to meet Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes. Iraq's King Feisal and Jordan's King Hussein to hammer together a common policy against the threat of Communist infiltration in Syria (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...King Hussein of Jordan flew in for what was billed as a ''holiday'' in Istanbul; his Hashemite cousin, King Feisal of Iraq, was already in Turkey on his royal yacht, and taking water-skiing lessons. Both cousins broke off their holidays for consultations with Premier Adnan Menderes...
...political opponents, included Formosa in his tour of Southwest Asia, talked with Chiang, and on his return to Tokyo announced that Japan had no plans to recognize Peking "in the foreseeable future." Scheduled to visit Chiang this fall: Iraq's Crown Prince Abdul Illah and Turkish Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Ankara. As time passed, tourist interest and national pride in the possession of a great historical monument gradually restored Turkish affection to the city they now called Istanbul. Still, nobody did much about repaving its streets, restoring its buildings or clearing its slums until last summer, when energetic Adnan Menderes, cooling off on the Bosporus, chanced to rummage around in some old plans for refurbishing the city. Menderes put his army to work as laborers, to save money...