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...suppliers. When Congress voted to ban all military sales to Turkey after its 1974 invasion of Cyprus, the Ankara government promptly shut down some U.S. bases and listening posts, many of which provided valuable intelligence surveillance of the Soviet Union. Mindful of Turkey's importance to NATO's Eastern flank, the U.S. felt compelled to continue military sales, including Phantom fighter jets, even while the embargo was technically still in effect. The U.S. bases were reopened in 1978 in exchange for a repeal of the ban on military shipments...
...four assassins encountered little resistance in the first 50 seconds or so as security men and military police dived for cover. One attacker raced to the right flank of the stand, presumably to pin down Sadat's security detail, and later joined another assailant, who charged straight to the podium, unimpeded. The two men stood on tiptoe against the wall, guns raised above their heads, firing a fusillade of bullets into the tangled melee of bodies and chairs. A third killer ran diagonally to the left side of the dais. The fourth attacker joined the others as they emptied their...
...taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases in Greece* now he would allow them to remain if Greece could close them at will. Instead of insisting that Greece get out of the European Community, he would now decide the issue by national referendum...
...both playing time and their own turn in front of the Crimson net. Senior captain John Duggan leads the troops from the stopper position, with sweeper Peter Sergienko clearing the ball away from the goal. Wingback Andreas Keller-Sarmiento (Mauro's younger brother) and Dennis Perese are slated to flank Duggan and Sergienko...
...flowers arranged on the sideboard." After them, the problem was to recomplicate the game of seeing; to show how the camera could deal with what was neither familiar in landscape nor quite amenable to the given pictorial conventions. Edward Weston did this with closeups on natural detail-the ribbed flank of a sand dune, the tiny mesas of worn rock surface at Point Lobos. Ansel Adams, the most popular of all American photographers, succeeded in turning the remote stasis of 19th century topographical photos into a Wagnerian drama of events...