Word: ankara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ankara, Teheran, Karachi, New Delhi, Belgrade-these were the way-stops of Secretary of State Dean Rusk in the ten days prior to TIME'S anniversary dinner. He was the only man in a white dinner jacket-because that's what he had along for appearances in India; he stepped to the dais without a word on paper and spoke eloquently of the explosion of states, ideas and problems in the 40 years since the birth of TIME. Excerpts...
...home after a 16,000-mile swing through Ankara, Teheran, Karachi and New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk squeezed in a short stop in Belgrade. For the diplomatic record, Rusk officially was repaying a 1961 visit to Washington by Yugoslav Foreign Minister Koca Popovic. But there was more to Rusk's courtesy call than that...
Five hundred autos filled with Justice Party followers formed a traffic-snarling motorcade to escort the 79-year-old Bayar from prison to his Ankara home. Next day, huge crowds milled around the house, and 10,000 supporters massed near parliament to shout his slogans. Two sympathetic Turkish air force pilots happily buzzed the city in their jets...
...midafternoon in Ulus Square, in the heart of Ankara, shoppers, office workers and bystanders jammed the streets. At the railroad station near by, a retired Turkish air force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds...
...back. Gulek and two other dissident leaders were summoned before the party's disciplinary committee and suspended for a year on charges that they had made damaging public political statements. But many party members thought the punishment was too severe. Last week, as 1,300 Republicans gathered in Ankara for their annual convention, 600 of the delegates signed a petition demanding that Gulek and the two others be reinstated...