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...Beymen Brasserie nearby, Tolga Yildirim, a consultant, is sitting at an outdoor table drinking beer. "This is all we're going to be spending on for a while - food and drink," he says. "That's about it for the near future. Everybody's going to have to be careful." For Turks used to living in a boom, it's quite a change. But they've been through hard times before - much harder times, and not all that long ago. As Ümit Boyner says, "We have a saying here: "If you go into the hammam, you have to sweat...
British Book Publisher Peter Wolfe ordered soup in an Italian restaurant, and the waiter served it with his thumb in it. Wordlessly sending it back, Wolfe wished he had had enough Italian to call the waiter "a dribbling, senile fool!" or at least snarl at him: "Tolga il suo sudicio dito dalla minestra!" (Get your dirty thumb out of the soup...
Rebel hopes for a widespread general revolt rest on the peasant masses and the thousands of unemployed workers in the cities. So far, peasant anger has been directed more at the "little village kings" and the overprivileged army than at Ben Bella himself. In the oasis village of Tolga last month, a furious crowd pummeled the mayor and the local F.L.N. political bosses, grabbed three buses and drove to Biskra to protest that the bosses had pocketed government relief funds. From Ouled Djellal and Ourellal come reports that hungry peasants have set fire to party headquarters and even liquidated some...
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