Word: turkeys
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Worse, the alliance's underbelly is sagging badly. Greece and Turkey have been on the verge of war over Cyprus for months and have threatened to withdraw completely from NATO. Portugal is threatened by Communist domination. Italy has made a partial economic recovery, but still faces growing Communist strength in elections this month. Southern Europe, in fact, was the conference's dominant concern...
...Both Greece and Turkey are geopolitically situated in such a way that their ultimate best interests will lie with continued association with the West. We can only hope that American politics will facilitate that understanding. In that sense, I've been propounding the shortsightedness of the Turkish aid cutoff...
Verge of War. Ford had reason to hope that he might be able to break the diplomatic deadlock on Cyprus. The Greeks seem willing to partition the island permanently, as demanded by Turkey, but insist on recovering much of the land seized by the Turkish invasion force in 1974. The land was once occupied by 200,000 Greek Cypriots, who are now homeless refugees. The dispute has kept both countries on the verge of war for nearly a year...
Last week Ford gained some leverage from the Senate that he can use to help negotiate an easing of the crisis. The Senators voted to renew arms shipments to Turkey that were suspended in February because the Turks had used American-supplied weapons in their invasion. The vote was narrow-41 to 40-but White House aides said that they could have gained at least ten additional votes, if needed, from Senators who were reluctant to cast them for fear of offending constituents of Greek descent. In his meetings with Turkish Premier Siileyman Demirel, Ford will probably argue that only...
...Cold Turkey. The middle portion of the movie shows Doyle trying to go cold turkey, and it is here that Hackman does some of his finest work. Many actors have tried to get under a junk ie's skin, but when Hack man weighs in, the subject might as well never have come up before. He gets it all: the desperation, the gargoyle fantasies, the sickness and the terror...