Word: turkeys
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IDIGRESS: the novel. Peter Gent, a former Dallas Cowboys flankerback in the days of Don Meredith, is also the author of the steaming, apocalyptic, and very good North Dallas Forty, the best novel ever written about pro football, not as limited a field as you might imagine. Texas celebrity Turkey Trot, which was excerpted last small in Sports Illustrated, and will be called by many another pro football novel, is not quite as good, I am sad to report. Readers of the sports pages will want to pick out who its characters are based on. Since Gent's autobiographical hero...
...impressed with the sincerity of the President and his collection of facts about people and places. But what did not add up was how this country was going to move beyond the disappointments in Iran and the Israeli-Egyptian impasse and go about protecting U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Taiwan and other places. Sadly, many of the people who came away from the White House that night felt the President was spending his energy explaining and justifying America's decline rather than creating a realistic policy to retain respect and influence...
...area, is very different from Iran but also highly vulnerable. Egypt, supported by the U.S., in part because of President Anwar Sadat's peace initiatives toward Israel, has serious economic problems, and corruption that is "worse than under Farouk," according to retired Career Foreign Service Officer Jim Akins. Turkey once again is the sick man of Europe, sliding into bankruptcy and desperately in need of financial...
...vital step would be to shore up the friendly Bulent Ecevit government in Turkey. Said Tahtinen: "We have to find a way to keep the present Turkish government afloat, to provide it $2 billion a year for the next five years to prevent a collapse." The aid should come, Tahtinen felt, not only from the U.S. but from other NATO countries and possibly Saudi Arabia, "which has an interest in stability in the region...
...Barzani, 75, Kurdish nationalist leader who waged guerrilla war for 40 years in a futile attempt to win a homeland in northeastern Iraq for his people; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Wishing to establish an autonomous Kurdistan for his 12 million Muslim tribesmen scattered throughout Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and the Soviet Union, Barzani led an unsuccessful rebellion against the Iraqi government in the mid-1930s. Fleeing to Moscow, where he spent twelve years in exile, he returned to his native land in 1958 to reorganize his guerrilla army, the Pesh Merga (Forward to Death). After a decade...