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...hours earlier, the East Room had been the setting for Richard Nixon's farewell speech to his Cabinet and the White House staff. In the interim, pictures of Nixon and his family and scenes from his triumphant Peking and Moscow visits had disappeared from the corridor leading to the Oval Office. They were replaced by pictures of Gerald Ford and his family. Now the East Room was filled again with 250 guests, a few of them still red-eyed from weeping at the emotional Nixon farewell. But there were many new faces, Republican and Democratic alike: the guest list included...
...Cyprus between Turks and Greeks extended last week beyond the island to United Nations conference halls in Geneva and New York City. In each arena, military and political, Turkey was emerging as the decisive victor. On the island, the invading Turks continued to pour men and equipment into their corridor between Kyrenia and Nicosia. By week's end the Turkish force was estimated at 30,000 men backed by 300 tanks. In political talks in Geneva, the Turkish government delayed attempts to scale down its Cyprus force and took advantage of the situation by broadening its Kyrenian beachhead...
...communal frenzy, where people aren't afraid to let their pants down. So, a few summers back, finding myself in Spain in July, I headed for Pamplona to pay my respects to San Fermin and his Dionysian worshippers. After a sleepless all-night train ride, crushed into a stuffy corridor crammed with Spaniards on their way to Pamplona, I arrived on the first day of the fiesta. The city was jammed and the wine had already begun to flow in the streets. I promptly bought myself a wineskin and some dirt-cheap red wine, and, with a little practice...
...begin repairs, Greek Cypriots were more concerned over Turkish territorial gains in the war. Turks now proudly hold Kyrenia, the first port they have occupied since the division of the island following independence from Britain in 1960. From Kyrenia, the Turkish gains stretch through a ten-mile-wide corridor to Nicosia and its large enclave of Turkish Cypriots. "Kyrenia is now the door and window of the Turkish community," said Turkish Leader Denktas. He added, not altogether lightly, "Now I will be able to go swimming in Kyrenia. I have not been allowed to do that for eleven years...
...with additional artillery and tanks. Turkish air force planes flew support for them, knocking out bridges and hitting police stations. The preliminary aims of the invading troops were to secure the ten-mile Kyrenia-Nicosia road and take the capital. They made quick advances the first day, capturing that corridor. Then Greek resistance sharply stiffened. Fierce fighting raged for Nicosia, with neither side in control of the city. A naval-air battle erupted Sunday on the southwest coast of the island, according to Ankara, when a Greek flotilla tried to land troops near Paphos. The Turkish General Staff claimed...