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CHAPLAIN GILBERT KOLLIN National Jewish Welfare Board Ankara...
...commandant of the Ankara War College, Turkey's West Point, Colonel Talat Aydemir last year decided to treat his cadets to a sort of after-hours seminar in current events. His subject was the slow pace of government reform under Premier Ismet Inonu. To speed things up, Aydemir, 43, a tough ex-artillery officer, suggested that the lads support him in an armed rebellion against the shaky Inonu regime. But everyone flunked the final exam in Insurrection I-an abortive coup led by Aydemir in February 1962 that fizzled out in six hours. Teacher lost...
...revolt began shortly after midnight when mutineers stormed the Ankara radio station and broadcast a declaration that the "Revolutionary Headquarters of the Armed Forces" was taking over the country. Roused from their sleep, loyal army troops raced to the scene, regaining control of the microphones briefly, only to lose it once again to the insurgents. The claims and counterclaims going out over the air waves were all very confusing to the folks tuned in at home. In the distance, they could also hear the rumble of tanks manned by rebel cadets, and the whoosh of government air force...
...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...