Word: turkeys
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Fourteen other nations are potential members of the club: Algeria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Libya, North Korea, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Venezuela. Though they are not nearly as advanced as the first group, they could become atomic powers by the end of the century-and sooner if they decide that it serves their interests...
Though they plead innocent to any bias toward either Turkey or Greece, even Washington officials admit in retrospect to some blunders in the Cyprus affair. Others credit them with even more. The first mistake was not taking sufficiently seriously reports in May that the Athens dictatorship was going to move against Makarios. The State Department sent a warning to Ioannides while Kissinger and former President Nixon were in Moscow in June, and it thought that the message had been taken to heart and the anti-Makarios movement dropped. Washington claims to have been as surprised as Makarios by the July...
...says Britain's former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home, "the Turkish invasion was inevitable from the beginning." The third error was for Washington, in the days following the coup, to state publicly that the Turks on Cyprus deserved greater autonomy, a statement that, although true, looked to Turkey like an invitation to invasion. State Department officials now privately admit that the statement should have carried a warning against the use of force. Once the Turks had decided on intervention, however, there was nothing Washington could do to stop them without using force itself. "Nothing anyone could have said...
Little to Gain. In fact, both Washington and London have only limited power in the matter now, and the issue really rests with Athens and, more important, with Ankara. Turkey is not concerned only about the Turkish minority on Cyprus. It also fears that the island, which lies only 44 miles off its shores, might some day be used as a base against it by a hostile Greek regime. Together with the other Greek islands fringing Turkey's shores, an armed Cyprus, it believes, could cut off major access lanes to the Aegean Sea and the open water...
...heroin had apparently been processed before the French connection was broken and had been stockpiled for later sale. So far, narcotics seizures in and around Amsterdam have been much smaller; officials reckon that the Dutch drug traffic is less than one-fourth the size of the Turkey-Marseille trade at its peak...