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...least as old as the French custom of hospitality is the tradition of terrorism. In 1894 anarchists killed French President Sadi Carnot. During that era bombs exploded regularly in Parisian theaters, cafes, police stations and courts. After two obscure terrorists bombed the Chamber of Deputies, the president of that body waited for the smoke to clear, then said, "Gentlemen, the meeting continues." In the 1870s the Communards executed 60 hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, during a two-month insurrection that took at least 20,000 lives. A century later the famed Middle East terrorist Carlos, also known...
Serious Consequences. Official Turkish reaction was guarded; nonetheless, there was general anger at Congress's action. In Ankara, Turkish Premier Sadi Irmak suspended bilateral talks on the future of American military installations in his country, and Foreign Minister Melih Esenbel canceled talks about Cyprus with Kissinger in Brussels...
...French Pilot Sadi Lecointe set a new world speed record (averaging 233.01 m.p.h.) over a four-kilometer course...
Hauling out a Menderes-era law outlawing any written or spoken word aimed at disturbing "the established" order, the Inonu regime last month jailed Kayhan Saglamer, managing editor of Istanbul's influential daily, Cumhuriyet, and Sadi Alkilic, a freelance writer. It turned out that Cumhuriyet had published an article by Alkilic entitled "Socialism Is the Only Salvation for Turkey"-one of a score submitted in the newspaper's annual essay contest...
...Argentina's major scandals last year was the disclosure by Judge Sadi Massue, a newcomer to the bench, that Buenos Aires police had tortured a university student nearly to death. Four older and more supple judges of the court of appeals speedily released the three cops held for investigation, but the Massue hearing had spilled the beans...