Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...historic document establishing the Mediterranean island as a republic was initialed tonight in a London hospital room by the prime ministers of Britain, Greece and Turkey...
...jets had scrambled into the sky for a look at an intruder inside Russia's southern border. It was, in fact, an unarmed, four-engined U.S. Air Force C-130 transport carrying 17 men. In flying a course from Trabzon to Van, Turkey in high winds and bad weather, the C-130 had strayed over the Turkish "fence" into Communist territory, possibly confused by high-strength directional signals from Soviet radio stations. Following the vectors from their own ground radar stations, the Russians sped toward the target area, barking pilots' combat chatter over the radio. The monitors caught...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Films covering the career of Kemal Ataturk, father of modern Turkey...
...agreement announced this week by Greece and Turkey over the future of Cyprus is not a happy ending. But it is a healthy beginning towards restoring order and liberty on the British-ruled island. According to the agreement Cyprus would be ruled, pending almost certain British approval, by a government based on a terests of the minority Turkish ethnic group...
...unicameral legislature, an ethnic Greek president and an ethnic Turkish vice-president will compose the legislative and executive leadership. The Turkish vice-president will have a veto on matters affecting the Turkish minority or the security of Turkey itself. Such a scheme closely resembles the one John Calhoun advanced to protect Southern minority rights in the pre-civil war United States...