Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cong to be more reasonable at the stalled peace talks in Paris, where Hanoi's Chief Delegate Xuan Thuy last week called Nixon a liar. Washington is especially upset, however, over the case of the captive U.S. generals, whose unarmed Beechcraft blundered off course on a flight in Turkey and was forced down by MIGs in Soviet Armenia (TIME...
...officials. As Gromyko may have been advised by Moscow before reaching the White House, the plane was unarmed and carried no spy gear. A twin-engine cruiser, it had set out from the eastern Turkish city of Erzurum, carrying the head of the U.S. military-aid mission in Turkey, Major General Edward C.D. Scherrer; his deputy for ground forces, Brigadier General Claude M. McQuarrie Jr.; Major James P. Russell Jr., the pilot; and Colonel Cevdat Deneli, a Turkish liaison officer. Their mission was to inspect Turkish forces at Kars, some 20 miles from the Soviet border...
...routine procedure, it entails an unusual risk along the Russian-Turkish border. The Soviets sometimes adjust their own, usually stronger beacons to the same frequency as those across the border. In fact, the U.S. is convinced that at least once, in 1959, they deliberately overrode a signal from Turkey to lure a U.S. military transport across the border and attack it. That incident took 17 U.S. lives...
Hint of a Swap. What were the Soviets up to? For one thing, they may have been trying to pressure Turkey into returning the father-and-son pair who carried off the first successful hijacking of a Soviet aircraft last month, killing an 18-year-old stewardess in the process. Turkish President Cevdet Sunay, however, declared that the matter would be handled not as a political decision, but by Turkish courts, where it is still pending...
Moscow's determination to punish the hijackers undoubtedly increased last week, when a second Aeroflot craft, a small passenger plane, was successfully diverted to Turkey by two students. The two asked for political asylum, claiming that they want to go to the U.S. American officials, determined to avoid a double standard for hijackers, are not likely to grant that wish, unless the students are first tried in Turkish courts. In any case, their deed could complicate the fate of the four military officers...