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Thus emboldened, Premier Süleyman Demirel played along with the rising Turkish indignation over Cyprus. In an all-night session of Parliament, he demanded-and got-permission to send troops abroad, which was the next thing to an outright declaration of war. He ordered a full-scale alert and fired off a sharp note to Athens that demanded, among other things, the immediate recall of General Grivas to the mainland and the withdrawal of the illegally infiltrated Greek regulars from the island. He also insisted on guarantees for the free movement of Turkish Cypriots so that they could concentrate...
...proCommunists and a wider spectrum of emotional anti-Americans took to the streets in a dozen foreign capitals from London to Tokyo, Tel Aviv to West Berlin. At home, thousands of Americans backed "Operation Gratitude," a grass-roots effort to show support of U.S. troops in Viet Nam through all-night vigils and round-the-clock displays of lights...
...all-night restaurant in Corning, Calif., two police officers sat chatting over coffee near dawn on July...
Inspiration & Speakeasies. After serving in the infantry in World War I, where he says he got his nickname for bravery on the French front, he moved into Harlem's musical mainstream. With Waller and Johnson, he soon reigned over the local circuit of speakeasies, raucous rent parties and all-night "carving contests," in which pianists, cheered on by audiences that included many musicians, pulled out their full bag of tricks in attempts to top each other. "Those fellows," says Cornetist Rex Stewart, "were the inspiration of most of the guys on the New York scene, many of whom became...
...know about you, do we? It might be interesting!" Replied Gurden: "If he is insinuating that I am one of the chosen few, perhaps he could tell us about it." The deputy speaker succeeded in restoring order and as the sun began rising over Westminster, the M.P.s ended their all-night debate and voted the bill...