Word: selim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Commander Allan Noble countered with a resolution urging the Greek government to shut off shipments of Greek arms and money to the Cypriot rebels. Turkey's Selim Sarper charged that Greece's sole interest in Cyprus was "territorial aggrandizement" and solemnly advanced the current Turkish ploy: if Greece insists on self-determination for Cyprus, Turkey will insist that the island be partitioned between its 400,000 Greek and 100,000 Turkish inhabitants. Patently determined to avoid entanglement in a quarrel between three NATO members, the U.S. earnestly entreated the U.N. to do nothing. "The adoption...
...reasons of its own, Soviet Russia is not willing to go so far right now. Unable to do this, Shepilov tried to soothe his hosts with sweeping offers of economic aid. The Arab disappointed reaction was one familiar to Shepilov's Western counterparts. Said Lebanese Foreign Minister Selim Lahoud: "I wish I could say I am more satisfied than I really...
...these troubles, the college had begun to occupy a special place in Turkey. When the Sultan's decree lost its power, young Turks began to flock to it. In the 1920s, the new republic was hungry for new ideas, and eventually Robert could claim such alumni as Selim Sarper, Turkey's Ambassador to the U.N., Haydar Cork, Ambassador to the U.S., and Kasim Gulek, secretary-general of the Republican People's Party. Robert has never tried to Americanize its students; it has merely tried to give them a first-rate liberal arts program which includes the best...
...other hand, Sultan Selim I is said to have liked coffee so much that he hanged two Persian doctors who said it was bad for the health-a fate that countless physicians since then have narrowly escaped. When the Turks raised the siege of Vienna, they left sacks of coffee behind, and an enterprising Polish defender of Christendom hastened to beat his sword into a percolator by grabbing the coffee and opening the first of hundreds of Viennese coffeehouses. Charles II of England called coffeehouses "seminaries of sedition," and in France they were just that. Rousseau, Voltaire, Robespierre, Marat...
America's Town Meeting (Sun. 6:30 p.m., ABC). "Should the U.S. Support the British in Egypt?" Pro: Ex-Ambassador to Israel James G. McDonald. Con: Egypt's Kamel Selim...