Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lice area, which is situated at the juncture of two shifting rock plates, is one of three Turkish regions prone to earthquakes. Even more vulnerable than Lice are towns along the Anatolian fault, which cuts horizontally across the northern tier of Turkey. The third seismic zone is in the west, in Turkey's Aegean provinces. Since 1903 earthquakes have caused more than 64,000 deaths in these three regions...
...homes on safer, flatter terrain below the existing village. Only 150 families were willing to make the move. Their reinforced concrete homes-unlike the older stone and mortar houses on the hillside-survived the recent earthquake with only slight damage. After a special five-hour Cabinet meeting last week, Turkey's Premier Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks, still angered by Congress's halt of arms sales and military aid following...
Greece is bolstering its military strength in case of an armed confrontation with Turkey over Cyprus and over territorial rights in the Aegean sea, where oil has been found. Funneling money to an American university doesn't jibe with political priorities and could hurt the Caramanlis government...
Sources say that the Greek government is not making its contribution to the chair public because the loss to the Greek budget could be detrimental to the government of prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis. Since the war with Turkey over Cyprus last year Greece has been attempting to build up its military strength, and armaments are a fiscal priority...
...story a year earlier, when, at 47, he married his second wife, a 17-year-old Greek girl named Sophia. Her strength was a good match for Henry's. At the Hissarlik digs, she supervised excavation crews, classified artifacts and helped her husband smuggle out of Turkey a huge and ela orately worked store of gold objects−presumed by the exultant Schliemann to be the fabled treasure of Priam...