Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Kissinger and company decided to move another aircraft carrier, Saratoga, into the eastern Mediterranean to join Independence, which had sailed eastward after the hijackings occurred. A group of C-130 transport planes was flown from Europe into Turkey. An airborne brigade had already been placed on semi-alert in Germany. At a later meeting, the group proposed moving a third carrier, John F. Kennedy, into the Med, and ordering the helicopter carrier Guam and its Marine landing team to leave North Carolina for scheduled NATO maneuvers in the Mediterranean a day early. Each move, as the Administration anticipated...
...Friday, the unstable situation in Jordan as well as the prolonged plight of the hostages forced the U.S. and Israel to consider a more drastic plan: military intervention. The Pentagon moved 25 Phantoms into a U.S. Air Force base at Incirlik, Turkey, where six 130 transports were already standing by to aid in a possible evacuation. The U.S. also ordered an aircraft carrier and supporting ships of the Sixth Fleet to a destination within reach of Jordan. Meanwhile Israel worked out a contingency plan that called for the use of helicopters and heliborne troops...
...Turkey has received a $3,000,000 loan from the U.S. to finance the war on narcotics. Under U.S. prodding, Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel issued a decree in June reducing the number of legal poppy-growing provinces from nine to seven by next year. He also submitted to Parliament a bill that would increase the jail term for illegal poppy growing from an insignificant six months to two years. Much of the pressure on Demirel was brought by a U.S. threat to cancel a much-needed $40 million loan to Turkey for economic development...
...Turkey and elsewhere, however, U.S. efforts run squarely into the private-profit motive. For example, a Turkish farmer can receive as much as $94 if he sells the harvest of an acre of poppies to smugglers. By contrast, he stands to earn only $4.83 an acre if he grows wheat...
...enough, women will have to buy complete new wardrobes; midi dresses, skirts, coats; belts and bags; higher-heeled shoes and boots. That could mean millions of dollars in sales, and security for thousands of jobs. Katherine Murphy, a fashion coordinator for Manhattan's Bloomingdale's, puts it cold turkey: "Look, this isn't fun and games. We have a multimillion-dollar business to run, and we're not laughing all the way to the bank. Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence." Bloomingdale's, obviously, is leaning Fairchild's way; so, for example, are Stanley Korshak in Chicago, Sakowitz...