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Following Sunday's attack, the military said it had launched an offensive along the border, where Turkey already has some 100,000 troops, backed by tanks, F-16 fighter jets and attack helicopters. On Monday, a convoy of 50 military vehicles, loaded with soldiers and weapons, was seen heading toward the border, according to the Associated Press. In Istanbul, the capital Ankara and the port city of Mersin, thousands of protestors, wearing black ribbons and waving the Turkish flag, denounced the PKK attack. Across the country, public events and celebrations (including a concert by the American pop star Beyonce...
...good boy.” When she disappears after she is discovered to be neither Chilean nor upper-class, Ricardo, already lovestruck at the ripe age of fifteen, fears he will never see her again. But he does, and often; as Comrade Arlette, a guerrilla fighter being trained by the Cuban revolutionaries; as Madame Robert Arnoux, the wife of a French bureaucrat; as Mrs. Patricia Robinson, the wife of a British racetrack regular; as Kuriko, the mistress of Japanese mobster; as Lucy, a broken woman. Vargas Llosa has worn many hats himself, from a prominent Latin American intellectual...
...This was the third heavyweight title fight in Moscow in the last year, since the current wave of homegrown boxers has overtaken the division. An ex-Soviet fighter holds each of the four heavyweight championship belts: Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko (IBF), Kazak Oleg Maskaev (WBC), Uzbek Ruslan Chagaev (WBA), and the Russian Ibragimov...
...purse for the fight totaled $6.5 million, a richer sum than could have been found in the U.S., says Yuri Fedorov, the fight's Russian promoter. Fedorov also promoted the first title fight in Moscow, last December, for which he paid Maskaev $3 million, double the fighter's standard...
...Inside the arena, there was a conspicuous lack of Western Europeans or Americans - strange for a title bout involving the biggest name heavyweight American fighter left. The only noticeable foreigners were those attached to the event itself, the pint-sized Latin fighters on the undercard and the backslapping members of the sport's professional traveling circus...