Word: atat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...counterterrorist operation began when Swiss police stopped Hussein Hanih Atat, 21, a Lebanese national, at Zurich International Airport as he was making a connection from Beirut to Rome. Officials found several explosive arming devices in his suitcase. Atat was also carrying 5 Ibs. of highly volatile plastic material in a cloth belt under his shirt. An accomplice escaped detection and took a taxi to Zurich's railway station, where police later found a suitcase containing another 5 Ibs. of explosives. The accomplice is thought to have made his way to Rome...
...choosing. Said Evren at a meeting of the Journalists' Association of Turkey last week: "Many axes are being kept under cover, waiting in ambush, ready to pounce, when we resign. Have no worries. We will deliver this homeland to you perfectly clean, as it was in Atatürk's time...
...other four members of the ruling National Security Council took the oath of office, they chose not to swear on the Koran or any other holy book. Instead, to underscore the secular nature of the Turkish state, they swore on their honor and invoked the name of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey...
...worried about the poor performance of the police in combatting the terrorists and by the rising menace of Turkish Communist militants. They were also concerned about increasing signs of Islamic fanaticism; a rally in Konya earlier this month that attracted 70,000 people struck them as a threat to Atatürk's concept of a secular society, which the Turkish military is pledged under the existing constitution to uphold. The generals reportedly gave the politicians a final warning on Aug. 29 in an effort to get them to accept Prime Minister Demirel's plan for early elections...