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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate in a circle around him. They reek of the peppermint smell of angel dust, and they are looking for somebody to blow away, like this turkey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

...deployment. (Some critics of SALT caution that the margin of error in measurement still makes it impossible to determine whether Soviet missiles exceed the size limits.) Missile takeoffs are monitored by ground bases to the west. With the closing of the two sites in Iran, the bases in Turkey are the nearest to the Soviet Union. The impact areas in the Pacific and on the U.S.S.R.'s Kamchatka Peninsula are watched by the massive radio and radar installation on Shemya Island in the Aleutians. What made the Iranian posts especially valuable was their proximity to the launch site, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: If Moscow Cheats at SALT | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

After a particularly frustrating point during his three-set loss to Harvard's Scott Walker yesterday at Palmer-Dixon, Brown's Phil Diaz yelled a self-deprecating "Turkey" at the top of his lungs. By the end of the match Diaz and his Bruin teammates were stuffed as big as a Thanksgiving capon by the Crimson who trounced them...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Netmen Destroy Bruins, 8-1 | 4/28/1979 | See Source »

...major issues, General Saddam Hussein runs a tough police state: dissent is ruthlessly suppressed and Iraqi jails are said to hold thousands of political prisoners. The government's greatest worry is a revival of unrest among the 2 million Kurds, who share with their ethnic cousins in Turkey and Iran a desire for an autonomous Kurdistan of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

...Turkey. Islam is still a potent force in secular Turkey, and religious violence between the dominant Sunni Muslims and the Alevis, a Shi'ite sect, has recently injected a dangerous new element into the country's chronic political instability. Ancient rivalries between the two groups are being exploited by both right-and left-wing extremists. Last December Sunni gangs massacred a hundred Alevis in the southern Turkish town of Maras. But unlike the Shah's Iran, Turkey has a functioning democratic system, and no single issue or popular figure unites the opposition. The government is fearful, however, that "political opportunists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World of Islam | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

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