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FOLK FESTIVAL--Peter Johnson's roster this week is impressive: Coster, Welling, and Wollack, an old-time string band with a prize-winning fiddler; John Kolstad, a bluesman who traces his roots to Robert Johnson; and Mike Turk, reportedly a fine harmonica man. --P.M.S...
...ideal way to find out what was going on inside the White House was to approach it from the outside--drive over to State or HEW, for instance, and look up some Young Turk who had just had a pet program sold out by Haldeman or Ehrlichman in order to placate some right-wing governor; the Young Turk would be angry and would gladly tell the whole story. But usually a White House reporter didn't have time to cultivate sources outside the White House was his beat and had to stay there to protect himself in case a story...
Though Israel failed to capture any terrorists in forcing down an Arab-owned jet last week, the principle behind the act already has been legally established -at least to Israel's satisfaction. No one knows that better than Faik Bulut, a 23-year-old Turk. Last February Bulut was captured during an Israeli raid on an Al-Fatah camp in northern Lebanon, 100 miles from the Israeli border. He was brought to Israel where he was indicted as a civilian for endangering the security of the nation. Last week Bulut was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...
...said, Israel was simply enforcing the earlier Nurnberg-tribunal conviction of Eichmann for crimes against humanity. "There is no such agreement about Al-Fatah," she told the three-man military court, and therefore Israel has no right to force its own laws upon foreigners outside Israel. Indeed, the young Turk had not been accused of committing an overt act against Israel-only with being a member of Al-Fatah, which is a crime in Israel. He denied even that, claiming he was a "guest" and was not training to destroy Israel. To which Government Prosecutor Dan Ben-Ner replied...
...succession between Defense Minister Moshe Dayan and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir has been postponed. As far as Dayan is concerned, it is just as well: he probably would have lost. Still, at 58, Dayan has relinquished none of the brash assertiveness that earned him a reputation as the Young Turk of the Labor Party...