Word: armenian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Byzantine style, with barrel-vaulted naves and horseshoe-arched apses. Unencumbered by the structural requirements of free-standing buildings, the Cappadocian builders developed some unique architectural features, such as unusually broad naves, in their little churches. Some chapels also contain such non-Byzantine elements as conical roofs--typical of Armenian architecture--instead of the more conventional hemispheres...
...From Armenian to Ukrainian, practically every cuisine in the world is available in New York City's 20,000 restaurants. But in many of these places, one does not live by matzoth, pita or tortillas alone. People go to some restaurants to see or be seen. Visitors are usually torn about trying those famous-and expensive -places that often threaten humiliation in some Siberia or ketchup room reserved for anonymous (to the maitre d') citizens...
...Levanter (1972), the hero is Michael Howell, a businessman in Syria who has a Cypriot mother and a Lebanese-Armenian grandmother. He calls himself a "Levantine mongrel," and he spend this time working out deals with a corrupt government to make profits for his company. All this until he falls in with a band of Palestine guerillas. This band may have been fighting for the liberation of their people at one time, but in Ambler's world they are now no more than thugs parading under false pretences. And the Israeli secret service is almost...
...director of New York's Congress of Italian-American Organizations. Now, taking a cue from the blacks, the white ethnics argue that what is good for blacks is good for other minorities. They too are demanding public recognition, federal funds, their own school and college studies-like "The Armenian Immigrant Experience" to be taught in Belmont, Mass., public schools-proportional representation in local government and television time. Among their gains to date: bilingual elementary-school courses for Portuguese Americans in the San Francisco area, and 42 "ethnic heritage" grants to the Belmont Armenians and similar groups from the Department...
...Vienna, three dark-complexioned English-speaking gunmen sauntered into the unguarded Turkish embassy and shot Ambassador Danis Tunaligil, 60, killing him instantly. Among the suspects sought by the Austrian police: Greek zealots who might be acting in retaliation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Armenians who might be taking belated revenge for the 1915 massacre of their countrymen in Turkey, and opium smugglers who believed they had been betrayed to the Austrian police by the Turkish authorities. Two days after the Vienna murder, gunmen in Paris opened fire on a car belonging to the Turkish ambassador to France, Ismail...