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...crisis in the Middle East, the issue at the top of the President's list is the normalization of relations with China, which goes into effect this week. A key ingredient of this new policy is the visit to Washington this month of China's peppery Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, and it poses a ticklish problem for Carter. He must make Teng feel welcome without at the same time alarming the Soviets. Any missteps that aggravate Moscow's apprehensions about the rapprochement between the U.S. and Peking could further delay that other vital item...
...market city. But not even that show of Turkish government force was enough to quell thousands of Muslim rioters who rampaged for four days through Maraş, killing 102 people and injuring nearly 1,000. Additional armored vehicles and paratroops had to be moved in. Finally, an exhausted Premier Bülent Ecevit declared martial law in 13 provinces where clashes also had occurred. Said Ecevit of the draconian measure: "I hope that in a short time we will no longer need...
...left-wing Alevi teachers who had been gunned down by unknown assailants. A throng of 3,000 right-wing demonstrators blocked the procession's route. In the fighting that followed, three Sunnis were killed. Then the Sunnis began looting, burning and killing. Local R.P.P. deputies frantically cabled Premier Ecevit that "under an R.P.P government even our own people cannot be sure of protection in our headquarters...
...Sunni-Alevi split has been worsened by the left-right division of Turkish politics. In order to maintain his parliamentary majority, Ecevit has had to deal cautiously with extremist sentiment while carrying out a left-of-center program. Although the Premier was successful in ending the 3½-year-long U.S. arms embargo against Turkey, lifted last August, he also made some friendly overtures to the U.S.S.R. The gestures toward the Soviets have exacerbated feelings among extremist Ecevit opponents. One slogan shouted by Sunnis last week: COMMUNISTS TO MOSCOW...
...only Christmas Day but also his 60th birthday, and Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was in an expansive mood as he addressed his countrymen on television. True, he castigated Israeli Premier Menachem Begin for seeking to create "a greater Israel extending from the Euphrates to the Nile." But he also voiced confidence that the Middle East would not revert to the "no-war, no-peace stalemate" of recent years, and he assured, "Peace will come, sooner or later...