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...First Volley Sir: In your article on Cyprus [March 20], you state that "the latest battle began when Greeks fought Turks with bazookas," etc. This is a gross distortion of fact. The incident in Paphos to which you refer happened when the Turks started firing from a minaret near the market square at the milling crowd. ANDREAS FRANCOS Embassy of Cyprus Washington...
...SPACE NEEDLE, being constructed as the fair's thematic tower. To stand 600 ft. high, it will be a graceful, wasp-waisted minaret, supported by six steel legs and topped by a four-story disk and a 40-ft. natural-gas torch. Within the slowly turning disk (one revolution an hour) will be a restaurant, an observation deck and a lounge where fairgoers will see a panorama of Mount Rainier, the Cascade Mountains, Puget Sound, the Olympic mountains and the city...
...massive social reform, De Gaulle had hoped to win over the vast noncombatant Moslem majority, separate them from the F.L.N. rebels, eventually produce a new moderate leadership that would negotiate a new relationship with France as between friends. That hope dwindled when the F.L.N. flags bloomed on every minaret, when the shouts of the demonstrators in Algiers and Oran, in Bone and Constantine, changed from "Vive De Gaulle" to "Vive Ferhat Abbas," from "Vive Algérie Algérienne" to "Vive Algérie Musulmane" (Moslem Algeria...
When search parties set out after a lost climber, Clyde usually hunts by himself, preferring to rely on his own knowledge of his mountains. In the early '30s, he started after a lost lawyer by guessing that he would have headed for the highest minaret in the area. Coming upon a pile of rocks of the sort climbers erect as trail markers, Clyde found fresh grass underneath. Clyde reasoned that the missing lawyer had recently built the pile, had probably already climbed and descended the highest minaret. "Then I figured he would try the second-highest minaret," recalls Clyde...
...daylight, the tinkling of silver bells and the aromatic incense of another age vanished like a mirage in the Kara Kum Desert. A Red flag flapped on the 203-foot-high summit of the Great Minaret, from which for centuries cruel khans and emirs had cast their enemies to their deaths. Over the main gate, in Russian and Uzbek, Maclean read the inscription: Town Soviet. Elsewhere he found decay and neglect. The miles of covered shops in Central Asia's most fabled bazaar had dwindled to a handful of grubby stalls, and only a few of the city...