Word: istanbul
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similar status is ensured for Rifat Ozbek. He is, quite literally, a young Turk, 32 years old and born in Istanbul. He studied architecture for two years at the University of Liverpool, but dropped out after construction technicalities began to overwhelm his design inspiration. Fashion offered a fresher, faster alternative: he was beguiled by the speed with which ideas could become a malleable reality. He showed his first eight fashion sketches at London's St. Martin's School of Art, and was immediately accepted. "He's an enormously talented designer with an original point of view," says Lydia Kemeny, Ozbek...
...news was that Middle East terrorism was again on the increase. Neither Pakistani authorities investigating the attempted hijacking of a Pan American airliner in Karachi two weeks ago nor Turkish police probing the massacre of 21 worshipers at a synagogue in Istanbul had yet announced the identity of the perpetrators or their mentors. In Lebanon, meanwhile, gunmen kidnaped two more Americans in West Beirut, bringing to six the number of U.S. citizens who, along with a dozen foreigners of other nationalities, are believed to be held hostage in that country by various terrorist groups. And in southern Lebanon, after Palestinian...
...Pope nonetheless did his best to get a taste of past climbing days in Poland. At the Brenva Glacier he insisted on a solitary, blissful 20-minute stroll on the ice. On Mount Chetif (elevation 7,687 ft.), John Paul spoke briefly, decrying recent terrorist attacks in Karachi and Istanbul as "horrendous and almost unbelievable acts." Then, waving away helping hands with open irritation, he climbed unassisted down and up a narrow, rocky path to pray at a 13-meter-tall stone statue of Mary the Queen of Peace. Told that local villagers hike up from the valley floor every...
...smoke and confusion that followed, Turkish officials initially believed two or three other terrorists escaped. Police immediately launched a manhunt around the city for them. Authorities tightened security at the city's gates, and Arab students were detained for questioning in Istanbul and Ankara, the capital. Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in Ankara to review the situation and then dispatched Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut to oversee the investigation in Istanbul. But after extensive searches, police said they believed only two terrorists were involved, and both had died in the attack...
shipers in an Istanbul synagogue. -- At Zimbabwe' s nonaligned...