Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the Sismik entered the Aegean Sea, the Greek government had angrily threatened naval intervention, and last week it demanded a U.N. Security Council session to stop the Turkish ship. Retorted Turkey's Premier Suleiman Demirel: "Interception of the Sismik will be an act of piracy. Short work is made of pirates...
...Greek island of Thassos in 1974, there has been speculation that the Aegean might contain a huge oilfield. For both, the cost of oil has consumed 80% of foreign currency earnings, so each considers the search for new sources a matter of survival. When several foreign companies rejected Turkey's invitation to explore the disputed waters, the Turks decided to set out on their own. At a cost of $3.7 million, they equipped a trawler with seismic devices for underwater exploration...
...dispute involves sharply different views of the laws of the sea. Greece, citing the Geneva Convention of 1958, claims that each of its 3,049 Aegean islands has its own continental shelf extending outward until the water reaches a depth of 660 ft. Turkey, which never ratified the convention, claims that the only way to define the border is by the Anatolian Shelf, which extends midway out into the Aegean. The Greeks maintain that their view was endorsed at this year's continuing U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. Says Turkey's President Fahri Koroturk...
Sickening Speed. Studio stuff, location stuff, newsreel footage, model shots - even outtakes from the classic turkey Tora! Tora! Tora! - are more or less artfully blended to give a vague feeling of what a modern naval engagement must be like - the large distances separating the antagonists when they launch their planes, the sickening speed with which the flames spread when they find their targets. But there is no real sense of the flow of fortune in the battle - the camera shies away from any at tempt at analysis. The Japanese, led by Toshiro Mifune, are neatly dressed and stoic (a useful...
Sort of Scapegoat. Donnelly and her companion were discovered in bed by her roommate and a male cadet, who explained later that they were looking for some aspirin. The male cadet, known on campus as "Turkey," tipped academy officials, who pressured Donnelly to resign but did not discipline her bunkmate. According to the academy's account, he had burrowed deep under the covers and could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone...