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...expected, Evren announced that his government would honor Turkey's commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The pledge was welcomed by Western strategists because Turkey, with the largest standing army in Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile border with the Soviet Union. Thus the U.S. and its Western European allies tended to be sympathetic to, if somewhat saddened by, the generals' reasons for seizing power. As Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary, put it, "No one likes army coups. But when you have...
...complex for both apartments and light industries turning out furniture, textiles and other products, as well as shopping centers and parks. Both solar heat and the food for a heavily vegetarian diet will come from a 4½-acre complex of greenhouses attached to the city's southern flank. While Arcosanti will have only about two-thirds the area of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, it will be set in 4,000 acres of Arizona wilderness, riverbed and valley owned or leased by a foundation set up by Soleri...
Europe must also accept the consequences of its prosperity and potential power by shouldering a greater share of the com mon defense, doing more to support NATO's crumbling southern flank, and playing a role in strategic areas beyond the NATO theater. That all this would require revived American strength, a military buildup, and better leadership is obvious...
...British forces, none too keen on marching by and leaving an unprotected flank that trigger-happy colonials might pepper, marched on to the Common. Their commander ordered the farmers to lay down their weapons and disperse--and, since the alternative was to be shot, most of the Minutemen began to do just that. But as they walked slowly off the Common, someone fired a single shot. Whatever its source, it incited the British-- disobeying orders not to fire, the regulars leveled one volley and then charged across the green, shooting and bayoneting the colonials...
...here - Austria, for example, where buses are contented and well behaved - but the Olympic delegations from these nations are made up of big shots who ride in limousines in their homelands, and they no longer know how to smile at a bus that has lowered its ears, pat its flank, and get it to open its doors. No one is quite sure where the buses go when they are not sulkily picking up people at the luge run, but there is no doubt that the ban on private cars has cleared the streets of traffic. State troopers standing...