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...private two-acre farms rather than trying to limit opium growing to state-run agricultural enterprises, where control is easier. It has also granted amnesty to hundreds of convicted opium smugglers. All this adds up to a triumph for Turkish pride and nationalism-and Turkey's deadly white flower...
...college towns from Cambridge, Mass., via Ann Arbor, Mich., and Madison, Wis., to Santa Barbara and Berkeley, Calif. The youths who wander from one tolerant university town to the next are "street people," who bear a superficial resemblance to the hippies of the late '60s. Yet unlike the flower children (of whom only a few remain), the new group of itinerant youths have not rejected the Establishment out of ideological beliefs. They are authentically poor, and though most say they want to work, they have no skills and can get only occasional marginal jobs...
...fatigue, Fischer's trip had its compensations. "The Arab tradition of hospitality," he says, "is alive and well. When we arrived at Sidi Jabir railroad station in Alexandria, members of the press were each presented with a fresh flower by gracious Egyptian girls. At the Alexandria Sporting Club, we were plied with Arab pastries and cool glasses of lemonade." Egyptian crowds all along the route cheered wildly for the two Presidents and directed huzzas at the press corps riding by-until recently a rare experience for Americans in Egypt...
...central market, is built around the columns and arches of a Roman temple to Jupiter. Surrounding it are other suqs with countless hundreds of tiny shops offering everything from Persian carpets and Damascus silks to transistor radios. In the modern west end, tree-lined boulevards are full of patisseries, flower shops and fashionable boutiques, reminders of the days when Syria was a French mandate. There is little of Beirut's brilliant but plastic dolce vita atmosphere, yet plenty to suggest that Damascus and Syria are authentically Arab...
...cultural traditions were renewed. But it was a bleak existence for the prisoners, many of whom had previously enjoyed middle-class comfort. Professionals, such as doctors and lawyers, were paid $19 a month for serving fellow inmates; laborers received $12 to do menial work. Some residents took up sewing, flower arranging, making jewelry from sea shells-all to ward off the feeling of confinement. It was hardly a Nazi-style concentration camp, but armed guards and barbed wire were continual reminders of freedom denied...