Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than a quarter of a century, dating back to the Truman Doctrine in 1947, Turkey has marched step by step with the U.S. on defense. The pattern of close bilateral relations between the two countries was later expanded under the NATO and CENTO treaties, and by 1975 U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey had reached a total of more than $6.5 billion. Last week the U.S. military-aid pipeline was abruptly cut off in accordance with a congressional order that all arms assistance be suspended until substantial progress is made in reaching a settlement on Cyprus. The cutoff...
Sadly enough, Congress's cutoff of aid to Turkey not only failed to break the deadlock in negotiations over Cyprus but may have exacerbated it. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called the cutoff "a tragedy" and warned that it could have potentially far-reaching effects if Turkey makes good on its implied threat to reduce its participation in NATO, thus jeopardizing the eastern flank of the Atlantic alliance...
...their tammes most people here were filing in and out of Memorial Hall and the Science Center wondering how their exam grades would look on their graduate school applications. While people in the United States and abroad died of starvation. Harvard and Radcliffe students complained of the amount of turkey tetrazzint dished up by Food Services. While the clattering of artillery and the whistling of bombs financed by our tax dollars continued in Vietnam, we studied in the cerie silence of Lamont and Hilles...
...with "the problems that concern Frenchmen of all professions," the Elysée Palace has been swamped with invitations. The very same night, one woman telephoned and told the duty officer at the palace: "Oh, please, tell the President to come right over. We're having oysters and turkey and would love to have him." Other offers were less polite, including some from Frenchmen who said that they would be only too delighted to have Giscard to dinner so they could give him an earful about his policies...
...dinner with the Cucchiarinis was only the latest in a series of moves that Giscard has made to make the presidency more informal. The day before Christmas he invited four garbage collectors into the Elysée Palace for breakfast and gave each a bottle of champagne and a turkey. Then on New Year's Day he showed up unexpectedly for lunch at an old-age home...