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...controls the east, is a garrulous jet-setter who mixes well at embassy parties. The only thing the two have in common is a long-standing hatred for each other. In an increasingly bitter showdown that has turned Kurd against Kurd, they are, says a Western diplomat in Ankara, willing to "risk committing national suicide...
...time being, hard-liners in Saddam's inner circle are urging him to strike against the weakened Kurds. Even the Kurdish people are becoming frustrated with their leaders. "This is the worst time in our history, because it is Kurd killing Kurd," says Shazad Saib, a Talabani representative in Ankara. "We are destroying our newly found homeland." A Kurdish poem laments: "Red roses are the blood of brother slain by brother. When will the mountain rose no longer smell of my brother's blood?" Perhaps never...
...helicopters; Mexico took in 48,178 M-1 carbines. Greece and its nemesis Turkey -- both U.S. allies that already fly F-16s -- received freebies as well. Athens took in a fleet of 80 A-7 and F-4 warplanes, 671 M-60 tanks and a guided-missile destroyer; Ankara received 28 AH-1 helicopter gunships, 822 M-60 tanks and 72 self-propelled howitzers. Strangely, few of the beneficiaries of the largesse take advantage of the chance to view the gear before delivery. "Many countries," the General Accounting Office (GAO) notes, "decline the offer because they cannot afford the travel...
...carted home. Even when sober, he had incompetence written all over him. A pre-employment psychological assessment found him lacking the people skills essential for spy work. Yet the CIA, desperate for warm bodies during the Vietnam War, hired him anyway. His first boss, the station chief in Ankara, Turkey, warned that the new agent was so inept at recruiting agents that he should never be sent to the field again...
When Ames was posted to Mexico City in 1981, Nancy did not follow. As in Ankara and New York, Ames was assigned to the CIA's Soviet/East Europe (S.E.) division to hunt potential agents. At that time, with President Reagan soon to embark on a crusade against the "Evil Empire," the fever for recruiting Soviet spies was rising. In the fall of 1980 the FBI and CIA had launched Operation Courtship in the hope of penetrating the big KGB station in Washington. While Ames was in Mexico dining and cultivating KGB officers, the FBI netted two important Washington-based...