Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration toward the Soviet Union. New York Post Columnist James Wechsler, for example, charges the Ford Administration with glaring inconsistency when the President exchanges toasts with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev at the same time that Defense Secretary James Schlesinger bewails the loss of anti-Soviet intelligence bases in Turkey as "an American tragedy." Many sincere sympathizers with Israel also have taken a strong anti-Soviet stand because of Moscow's backing (in fact, relatively restrained lately) of the Arabs. Such observers see a paradox in the acceptance at Helsinki of Soviet territorial conquests in Eastern Europe while Israel...
...cries of public rhetoric but also the intricacies of private bargaining. Born in Brooklyn, where his father ran a printing plant, he holds a master's degree in international labor relations from Columbia University and has worked for the Government teaching collective bargaining procedures to union leaders in Turkey. Even at the darkest moments, he is able to retain a sense of humor. When asked last week what would happen when the negotiators reached a midnight deadline that Mayor Beame had set, he answered, "I turn into a pumpkin, what else...
...first appointed President is a world figure to be reckoned with. It was all the more dismaying, then, that Congress sent him on his way with a stinging defeat, on what had seemed to be a peripheral question. At issue: Should Congress continue embargoing arms shipments to Turkey because the Turks had used American weapons in their 1974 invasion of Cyprus...
...narrow 41-40, but Ford lobbied even harder with the House. He pleaded with key Congressmen for their support of a major NATO ally. To help the bill's chances, he watered it down, providing mainly for a restoration of the $ 185 million in arms that Turkey had already contracted to buy. When the measure came to a roll-call vote last week, a series of ayes flashed on the House's electronic screen, and Ford led. Then in the last 50 seconds, a barrage of noes suddenly defeated the measure, 223-206. The crowd in the galleries...
...adroit, persuasive Foreign Minister, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord-whom Napoleon had once called "a piece of dung in a silk stocking," presumably because of his tendency to shift allegiances. Also present were some 32 minor German princes, representatives of the Pope, the Sultan of Turkey and numerous special interest groups (including the Jews of Frankfurt). They were accompanied by an extravagant collection of wives, mistresses and servants, and so much time was spent at entertainments that the Congress never shed its image as, in Lord Byron's phrase, "that base pageant...