Word: turkeys
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...uneasy homeland to 490,000 Greek Cypriots, most of whom have traditionally espoused enosis (union with Greece), and 110,000 Turkish Cypriots, who have long favored partition of the island. In December 1963, savage fighting broke out between the two communities. In November 1967, war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus was narrowly averted by the mediation of Lyndon Johnson's emissary, former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance. Now, a campaign of terrorism again threatens to bring the island to flashpoint...
...majority of Greek Cypriots has reluctantly accepted the cold truth "that Greece's military junta has no desire to risk war with Turkey by supporting an enosis movement. Following the 1967 crisis, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos removed 7,000 of the 8,000 troops then based on Cyprus to avoid a showdown. Last month, at Makarios' request, he repudiated the National Front. Makarios then ordered a police crackdown on illegally held arms, and the Cyprus parliament dealt the Front an even stronger blow two weeks ago by passing a law enabling the government to detain suspected terrorists...
...this time, as another hostess and Mrs. Dubček wept openly, the former party leader turned the autograph seekers away. Then the man who had sought in vain to liberalize Czechoslovak Communism helped his sobbing wife aboard the plane and flew off to diplomatic exile as Ambassador to Turkey...
...drug authorities have tried for years to get France and Turkey to tighten restrictions on "H," but without much success. Last week the White House announced that President Nixon, concerned by estimates that 180,000 Americans are now addicted to heroin, has made the problem a matter of high-level diplomacy. International heroin control, as one Administration official put it, "is now a foreign policy objective of the United States...
Gradual Ban. Partly out of indifference, partly because of some real difficulties, Ankara and Paris have been slow to attack the heroin problem. Under the 1961 United Nations convention on narcotic drugs, Turkey is one of eight countries permitted to export opium poppies for medical purposes. Some 70,000 farmers, most of them supporters of the ruling Justice Party, count on the opium produce for at least some of their earnings. The government pays $5 a pound, though many growers sell part or all of their crops on the black market for as much as five times the official price...