Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Again the President fell to his doubts: "I mean, God, maybe we were talking about a cover-up?Watergate. I really didn't, I didn't know what the hell?I honestly didn't know ... It's not comfortable for me because I was sitting there like a dumb turkey...
Nonetheless the danger of a major war between Greece and Turkey was so acute that diplomats everywhere pitched in to stop the shooting on Cyprus. The Security Council approved unanimously-after the Soviet Union withdrew its earlier opposition-a resolution calling for a cease-fire and negotiations. Turkey flatly refused to obey...
NATO, since both Greece and Turkey are members, ineffectually attempted to mediate. Britain, which along with Greece and Turkey is a guarantor of Cyprus' sovereignty under the 1960 Zurich treaty that granted it independence, also interceded with both sides...
...days when his gang used to attack them with provocations-that "the Turkish community is in no danger at all." Cypriot Turks were unconvinced by his assertion. Rauf Denktas, leader of the Turkish community on Cyprus, refused to recognize Sampson's takeover of power and openly called on Turkey and Britain to oppose...
...ignore just as it now ignores the repression of the Greek people by an illegal junta that is propped up by American aid. The tender peace that now exists in the entire eastern Mediterranean powder keg is threatened by Athens's illegal aggression. The smoldering strife between Greece and Turkey could explode as a result...