Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Last year, serious earthquakes struck Guatemala, killing 22,000; the area surrounding Tientsin in China, with a toll of perhaps 665,000; Mindanao, 8,000; Turkey. 5,000: and northern Italy...
While Cyrus Vance toured the Middle East last week, President Carter's special envoy Clark Clifford, 70, flew to another eastern Mediterranean trouble spot. His mission: to bolster U.S. relations with Greece ; and Turkey and to help resolve the longstanding impasse between Greeks and Turks on Cyprus. In 1974, following the Athens-inspired coup against Prelate-President Makarios, Turkish troops invaded the island, and the savage war left Cyprus with an internal frontier of barbed wire, mines and armor. Turkish forces seized the northerly 40% of the island, causing some 200,000 Greek Cypriots to flee to the south...
Neither of the ethnic communities is altogether satisfied with the status quo. Though the island's 120,000 Turks have controlled the industrialized north since 1974, they lack the skilled manpower to operate the factories. As a result, Turkish Cyprus depends on mainland Turkey for more than half its budget. Even so, Turkish Cypriots are not nostalgic for their former life. They are keenly aware that they are only 18% of the island's 640,000 inhabitants, and they still fear the Greek Cypriots' enduring conviction that Cyprus is inherently Greek...
Condor is having some impact: drugs are scarcer on U.S. streets, but how long-lasting that will be is still difficult to determine. U.S. narcotics agents are impressed by the aggressive Mexican efforts, but they have also learned in Nepal, Turkey and Southeast Asia that peasants who have finally found a lucrative cash crop can be wily and aggressive. In Mexico the destruction of planted fields and the arrests of several overlords, including Jorge Favela-a local godfather who has been sought in half a dozen other countries for drug trading-have led to fierce internecine battles for control...
...think that Cupid's turkey, but I get into other aspects of the day so that I get so happy and sentimental that I could squeeze marischino cherries and watch that red juice drip from my hands for hours," Mark Weeneker '80 said yesterday...