Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effort has centered mainly on Mexico and Turkey, where the poppies that are converted into morphine base grow in abundance, and on France, where gangsters in "laboratories" around Marseille refine crude morphine into heroin, which is then smuggled into the U.S. The U.S., for example, has given Mexico $1,000,000 for the purchase of five helicopters, three light aircraft and other equipment to be used specifically to detect and catch violators. Dogs have been trained to sniff out marijuana. Since last October, the Mexican army has sought out and destroyed a total of 1,450 acres of poppy fields...
...spark plug to stripping wire and turning regular and Phillips screws. Not to be outdone, G.M. suggests that, with its illustrated and simplified manual, the Vega owner will need only a few tools: wrench, screwdriver, coat hanger, garden hose and-to replace transmission and rear-axle fluids-a turkey baster...
Died. Panayotis Pipinelis, 71, Foreign Minister of Greece, one of the few professional politicians to serve the ruling military junta; of a heart attack; in Athens. A longtime supporter of King Constantine, Pipinelis nevertheless stayed on to assist the inexperienced colonels in their efforts to avert war with Turkey over Cyprus in 1967. Fellow royalists regarded him as a traitor, but he persisted in his attempts to moderate the oppressive regime...
Leftist Despair. In the midst of that field, Demirel is a man beset on all sides. The peasants, who constitute 70% of Turkey's 35 million people and the chief source of support for Demirel's Justice Party, are angered by his attempts to improve conditions for the middle class and the business community. The middle class wants him to place more emphasis on law and order so as to curb radical leftists. The minority leftists, who despair of ever gaining any sort of power through parliamentary means, advocate disruption as the only way to be heard...
Though the left is politically insignificant, it is both vocal and growing in influence among students, labor leaders and intellectuals. Earlier this month, teachers demonstrated in Ankara to protest conservatism in the university there, while students managed to disrupt or close down every major university in Turkey this past spring. So far this year, 14 students have died in violent demonstrations. "If the corrupt university leadership is not replaced by next term," says one student leader, "there will be more blood spilled. We are not fooling." Despite the increased vigor of the left, the Communists are not one of Demirel...