Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weeks ago, three NATO radar technicians-two Britons and a Canadian-were kidnaped, then murdered in a remote shack in North Central Turkey by members of a small extremist organization called the Turkish People's Liberation Army. Turkish soldiers waiting outside retaliated instantly by killing ten of the eleven terrorists inside with rockets and rifle bullets...
Reflecting the army's impatience with the terrorists, President Cevdet Sunay, a former general, called for an end to "political discussions and conflicts" and asked parliament to give the government "general authority" to issue laws by decree. All four major parties refused, giving rise to fears that Turkey might be heading toward another impasse between the armed forces and the politicians...
Speaking at the Law School Forum, Freedman said that the famous banquets reminded him of Alice in Wonderland: the Chinese band played "Turkey in the Straw" while President Nixon sat down with "the devil's turkey...
...natives is that the cotton cloth and other goods which the Portugese had up till then used in barter for slaves were of such inferior quality that the Africans refused to do business. Indeed, through the history of her subjugation of Angola, Portugal-known as the "little Turkey of the Occident"-has used force where the loftier French and English imperialists used subtler means...
...virtually blockaded by its Arab neighbors. Syria and Iraq barred Jordanian planes from their airspace, and Jordanian farmers have had to dump crops because they were barred from their usual markets in those countries. Shipment of phosphate, Jordan's principal export, was barred by Syria. As a result, Turkey now buys phosphate from Israel. Imported goods are brought in through Jordan's single port of Aqaba. Because the Suez Canal is blocked and ships must go around Africa, prices of imports have risen...