Word: turkey-bound
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...other kinds of cooperation, like basing and overflight rights. This was most recently demonstrated in the long-running argument between the U.S. and Turkey over the price--literally--of allowing U.S. troops on Turkish soil. While the diplomats haggled, nearly three dozen ships started to ferry men and equipment of the 4th Infantry Division from the U.S. to Turkey. Under the war plans, the division is supposed to attack Iraq from the north. Diverting the Turkey-bound ships to the Persian Gulf--probably to Kuwait--would delay the optimum start date of a war by a month. Both Turkish...
When the Bulgars slipped nearly 1,000 passportless gypsies into a Turkey-bound contingent, the Turks closed the frontier and threatened to appeal to the U.N. The Bulgarian Reds were at their most disarming: "What is there here to discuss...
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