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...open question is whether Qalibaf's modern style and conservative credentials could combine to enable him to improve relations with the West. He expresses delight with the U.S.'s overthrow of Saddam and support for the U.S.-backed Iraqi government, with which he recently held talks in Baghdad. "We sit down at one table to talk about specific issues, such as Iraq," Qalibaf says. "This shows that we can sit down at other tables too and talk with the U.S. [on other issues]." But it is vital, he adds, that the U.S. finally accepts the legitimacy of Iran's revolution...
RELEASED. Ricardo Montero Duque, 60, a battalion commander in the 1961 U.S.-supported Bay of Pigs invasion, which sought to overthrow Fidel Castro, and the second-to-last prisoner being held; after serving 25 years of a 30- year sentence; from a Havana prison. Montero Duque flew to Florida with aides of Senator Edward Kennedy; with others, Kennedy was credited with effecting the release. The prospects for the remaining prisoner, Ramon Conte Hernandez, are unknown...
...Turkey Rounding Up Unusual Suspects Police arrested 86 people on July 14, including several former military officers, on charges of belonging to an illegal ultranationalist organization seeking to overthrow Turkey's government. The indictment, which accuses the group of several terrorist attacks previously attributed to Islamic militants, is the latest clash in the battle between Turkish secularists and the nation's religious-conservative leadership. The arrests coincide with deliberations by Turkey's top court about whether to disband the ruling AK Party for violating Turkey's secular constitution...
...subvert the Turkish state? On July 14, Istanbul's top prosecutor, Aykut Cengiz Engin, gave one grave and tantalizing answer. He announced indictments against 86 people, including military officers and prominent journalists, for allegedly "attempting to overthrow the Turkish government by force." The "Ergenekon" coup plotters apparently named their hard-core nationalist group after an idyllic valley evoked in the Turkish people's pre-Islamic founding myth. The prosecution claims they were out to unseat the Islamic-leaning government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by sowing chaos to provide a pretext for the army to step...
...happened," says Falceto. "These big bands were dead. They just didn't exist any more." Incredibly, the vibrancy of Addis's musical life in the 60's and 70's owed its all to the municipal and military bands that were sponsored by the emperor Haile Selassie until his overthrow...