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...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
...crisis in domestic diplomacy for Turkey's Ambassador to the U.S., Mehmet Munir Ertegun. His sons Nesuhi and Ahmet had conceived a most un-Turkish enthusiasm for caz and yaniturku - Turkish for the jazz and blues music of the American Negro...
...country that still can plant its own crops. Albania's Communist Party has begun burning books, slashing paintings, purging comrades as "decadent" and "soft " breaking down the old habits of the peasants." Albania's Ked Guards already number 10000 but that is just the beginning. Premier Mehmet Shehu says that by spring "all Albanian youth will be mobilized for great historic decisions...
Puffed Mao. Mao's reappearance also had some spurious elements to it. Out of sight for six months, and reportedly ailing from either a stroke or a severe heart attack, the Chinese ruler suddenly turned up in blurred, front-page newspaper photos chatting amiably with visiting Albanian Premier Mehmet Shehu. Despite his hearty grin, Mao seemed unnaturally bloated...
...Asia Minor-a forbidding, sparsely populated region of parched plains and spiny, 10,000-ft. mountains, of swirling dust and barely passable roads. It is an inhospitable land to everybody except bandits and smugglers. For more than a decade, the most notorious bandit in the area has been Mehmet Ihsan Kilit, known throughout Turkey simply as "Kocero." He usually looked like a walking arsenal, with bandoleers of cartridges over his chest, binoculars dangling from his neck, a rifle slung over his shoulder, and a hunting knife or a revolver seemingly glued to his hand. He was believed to have killed...