Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was condemned not only by Western leaders but by numbers of Third World countries, including Egypt, Tunisia and the Sudan. The Saudi Arabia-based Islamic World League declared that "the Communist aggression aims at eliminating the Muslim presence in Afghanistan. In Turkey, which has been plagued by mounting economic problems and political instability (see WORLD), military leaders alluded to the Afghanistan crisis when they warned rival civilian politicians to start working together or face overthrow...
...well-orchestrated political effort to internationally portray and publicize the Afghan rebels as a national liberation movement. Even without such prompting, anti-Soviet demonstrations broke out last week in Turkey, India, Sudan, Indonesia, Iran...
...judgment seems to be rigged up to a perverse double standard. Let only a rumor waft through, a propagandist's mischievous fantasy about the CIA's organizing the attack on the Sacred Mosque at Mecca, and rioters swarm like film extras against U.S. consulates from Turkey to India; in Islamabad, Pakistan, two Americans die and the embassy goes up in flames. Let the U.S. admit the deposed Shah for temporary medical treatment, and the Tehran embassy, with all occupants, becomes the property of overheated Shi'ite gunmen. But let four Soviet divisions move in to take possession...
...more than 5,000 varieties of birds around the world in one year. Meanwhile, he can comfort himself with the thought that he did find two more birds of a different feather in 1979. On the last day of the year, a neighbor gave him a bottle of Wild Turkey whisky with a paper bird wired to its neck. That gave him 700 after...
...Turkey the shadow of the military has never receded very far from politics. Last week it suddenly loomed larger and closer than usual. The country's military leaders issued a stern warning to the politicians to get together and resolve the country's manifold crises-especially its rampant terrorism-before it is too late. The warning was contained in a special memorandum delivered on New Year's Day to President Fahri Korutürk and later broadcast. It was signed by the chief of staff, General Kenan Evren, as well as the commanders of the army, navy...