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...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...
...Greenwich, England, somebody swiped the seven-inch, diamond-studded headdress presented to Admiral Lord Nelson in 1798 by Sultan Selim III of Turkey to commemorate Britain's victory over Napoleon in the battle of the Nile...
...Assembly voted a strategic embargo against Red China and North Korea. Russia's Jacob Malik and Soviet satellite spokesmen growled: "Illegal . . . shameful." India's Sir Senegal Rau fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure 47 to 0. The five Soviet bloc members refused to take part...