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Piasters & Perfection. Some of these traits were evident quite early in the character of Mustafa, as the young Atatürk was called. His father, who ran a lumber business in Salonica, died in 1889 when the boy was eight, and left the family without a piaster. Little Mustafa made a fierce resolve: "I am going to be somebody." At twelve, against his mother's orders, he took entrance examinations for a government military school, passed them, and then hectored her till she signed his admission papers. He was a proud, cold, brilliant boy who could follow several conversations...
...Turks regarded MacArthur as "the greatest hero," next to our beloved father and builder of the modern Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atat...
...tribesmen holed up in the Zag ros Mountains. Latest to do so is President Abdul Salam Aref, who seized power last November. With a flourish of drums and trumpets, Radio Baghdad last week proclaimed an end to the three years of off-again, on-again war with Kurdish Leader Mustafa Barzani and his 35,000 pyejmargas, guerrilla fighters...
...juke-box as an American atrocity, for example, they might better blame West Africans for the original Bambara word, dzugu (wicked), which evolved into joog (disorderly) in the Gullah language of sea-island Negroes living off Georgia and South Carolina. It is virtually impossible to keep a language "pure." Mustafa Kemal tried it in Turkey, failed for the simple reason that half the Turkish language is borrowed from Arabic and Persian. Mussolini purged Italian of such "foreign" French (but Latin-derived) words as hotel, menu and chauffeur. His so-called "Italian" substitutes -albergo, lista, autista-come from old German...
Broad-shouldered Mustafa Barzani, 60, has spent most of his adult life fighting for independence. After World War II, with Russian backing, Barzani became military boss of the Soviet-inspired Kurdish People's Republic in Iran and, when it collapsed, was for twelve years in exile in the Soviet Union. The younger brother of the ruling sheik of the Barzan tribe, Barzani denies he is a Communist, but echoes other Kurdish leaders who say that if war breaks out again the Kurds will "accept all the help we can get from anyone"-Russians included...