Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Loaded down with 40-lb. backpacks, the executive hikers log about five to ten miles each day. During rest periods, O.B. leaders give lessons in first aid and wilderness survival. Each evening the group staggers into a makeshift campsite, then wearily prepares a dinner of chicken stew, Turkey Good N' Hearty or another freeze-dried delicacy...
...Turkey is also opposed to Makarios' return. Last week Ankara placed its 35,000 troops on the island on maximum alert, and warned that if there were renewed fighting among Greek Cypriots, it would intervene to protect the 30,000 Turkish Cypriots living in the Greek-controlled part of the island. As tensions mounted, a Cypriot government spokesman charged that the Ankara government was looking for a pretext to launch a fresh military operation-the dreaded "third round" that Greeks fear would enable Turkey to overrun the rest of the island (it now controls 40% of the territory...
...quarter. The State Department claimed that the increase was due to delivery of four F-4 fighters that had been ordered in 1972. Greek Cypriot newspaper reaction was bitter. Editorialized the right-wing Agon, official newspaper of Clerides' Unified Party: "Our conclusion can only be one: that if Turkey carries out its threat [for renewed fighting], the real culprits will not be in Ankara but in Washington...
Glimmer of Hope. Other pressing matters include a settlement of divided Cyprus, which Caramanlis declared "the immediate and crucial problem" facing his government. Last week there were some glimmerings of hope that progress could finally be made. After two months without an effective government, Turkey at last had one; on the very day that Greek voters gave Caramanlis his mandate, Turkish President Fahri Korutü named Sadï Irmak, 70, an appointed Senator who does not belong to any party, as Premier of a caretaker regime. Beyond that, the results of the Greek elections were well received in Ankara, which...
...Harvard wrestling team will open its winter season against Rutgers on Saturday. Although Rutgers always has a strong team, the toughest part of the upcoming contest for most of the Crimson grapplers is foregoing Turkey Day dinner in order to make weight...