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Snatched out of school in 1917 to serve in the Ottoman army, Adnan saw no combat in World War I, but made up for that deficiency after the war, when Greece, backed by Britain and France, set out to annex large chunks of the defeated and disintegrating Turkish empire. As a member of the Turkish underground, Menderes took part in a rebellion against the Greek forces occupying his native Aydin. Later, as an army lieutenant, he served under Mustafa Kemal Ataturk in the offensive that recaptured Izmir from the hapless Greeks. (Among the factors contributing to the defeat...
...major strains on the Sudan come from outside. Egypt would welcome a chance to annex the country, is meanwhile trying to force it into a Nasser-styled policy of neutrality. The Soviet Union, which recognizes that the Sudan is a gateway to the African continent, has tried its best blandishments. That neither has succeeded is largely due to tough-minded Premier Abdullah Khalil...
President Wilbur K. Jordan of the Annex, in his Annual Report, has outlined, without suggesting specific solutions, some of the admissions problems facing Radcliffe...
Radcliffe officials were unavailable for comment on the Annex's part in the program, but Furcolo has appealed to all Massachusetts colleges for their cooperation in finding suitable delegates. The Governor does not require that the students be residents of Massachusetts for more than the school year...
...Radcliffe Committee on Admissions is composed of Jordan, four annex deans and one or two outside persons, usually Harvard professors...