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...explicit "or else" clause, but then none was really needed. The warning served as an immediate reminder of the fact that twice in the past two decades, in 1960 and again in 1971, the armed forces had taken over the country. "This is a serious situation," admitted conservative Premier Suleyman Demirel, who has been in office only since Nov. 19. Said left-of-center Opposition Leader Bülent Ecevit, Demirel's predecessor as Premier: "The crisis has assumed a new dimension...
...latest mayhem brought the death toll from two years of extremist violence in Turkey to more than 2,500. Eight to ten people have been killed each day since Demirel, 55, became Premier. The combatants in the daily armed street battles are from both extremes. On one side are rightist gangs like the "Gray Wolves," often associated with the National Action Party, an ultraconservative group. On the other are the more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some...
FORSYTH MOVES THE action around the globe every few paragraphs until we learn that the Soviet grain crop has failed almost completely because the red bureaucracy fouled up. The folks in the Zil limousines, especially the Brezhnev-clone Soviet premier, Maxim Rudin, are not amused, and Rudin's Kremlin rivals want to use the crisis to get the old curmudgeon bounced. Back in Washington, Bill Matthews and Assistant for National Security Affairs, Stanislaw (read Zbigniew) Poklewski, and Secretary of State David (read Cyrus) Lawrence want to use the shortage to wring concessions out of the Russians...
...Salt II treaty remains on the Senate floor as Southern senators filibuster. Sam Nunn of Georgia declares that his colleagues' latest demand was to exchange SALT II for the death of Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. Meanwhile, facing growing criticism on the left, Kennedy announces that he will solve the urban mass transit crunch by placing the MX subterranean missile system on city subways...
alliance between India and China to stave off the Vietnamese threat. The Two nations launch a preemptive strike on Hanoi, form parking lot. Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaphong comments "they were obviously insane. We had to bomb them to save them...