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Turkish Air Force jets boomed over the southern provincial capital of Maras, (pop. 136,000) early last week, while crack army and commando units took up positions in the usually quiet milleniums-old market city. But not even that show of Turkish government force was enough to quell thousands of Muslim rioters who rampaged for four days through Maraş, killing 102 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Additional armored vehicles and paratroops had to be moved in. Finally, an exhausted Premier Bülent Ecevit declared martial law in 13 provinces where clashes also had occurred. Said Ecevit...
...Sportsman-Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 59. The one he found was 3,000-acre Laucala. But that was in 1972, and since then Forbes has given up his resort idea. Last week, all decked out in lei and tropical duds, he teamed up with Fijian Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to cut ribbons on some new projects that have to do with raising coconuts and corn and promoting sport fishing...
...Nevada, voters who do not like the choice of candidates have the tempting option of marking their ballots for "none of these." As a result, Republican Congressional Candidate William O'Mara embarrassingly found himself outpolled in the primary by the "no" votes. In neighboring Idaho, Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Allan Larsen suffered a similar slight. To underscore Incumbent John Evans' refusal to debate, Larsen paid for a televised confrontation with an empty chair. That helped one voter make up his mind: he cast a write-in vote for the empty chair...
...prayer is that the new Pope identifies with the poor and oppressed of the world, so that future covers of TIME symbolizing the office will show a simple wooden cross-such as Bishop Dom Helder Câmara wears-indicating a papacy that enters into the suffering of others...
...Mara, the rabbi's daughter, is an antic rebel. Bribed back to New York from Israel, where she distinguished herself by disco dancing and hobnobbing with the arty underground, she and her beloved Sudah, an Egyptian-Israeli artist cum hippie cum pacifist, spend days assembling highly unorthodox outfits for their Orthodox wedding. Mara's veil is an old tea-stained lace tablecloth that gets caught on her steel-rimmed glasses; Sudah is resplendent in a black velvet suit, cape and top hat. First Novelist Tova Reich's glancing Swiftian wit never flags. She introduces one Rabbi Leon...