Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...damage became known, Ershad appealed for international aid, including food, medicine, water-purification tablets and 3 million tons of grain. "Pray for us," he told visitors. The U.S. pledged some $150 million, much of it in grain, and $60 million was offered by Japan, Britain, France, Canada, Turkey and others. Local relief agencies did what they could. In a northern section of Dhaka, a group of engineering students raised $50, found a boat and poled their way along the main streets distributing food and medicine...
...last week, as some 60,000 Iraqi troops backed by aircraft, tanks and artillery continued the operation, at least 60,000 Kurds had fled across the border into Turkey. In the safety of one of four refugee camps there, Sefika and her family were relatively fortunate. According to some reports, the Iraqis killed at least 2,200 civilians and 250 pesh mergas. Though not all the dead were victims of chemical warfare, the attacks revived ghastly memories of Iraq's poison-gas blitz last March in the village of Halabja, where an estimated 4,000 Kurds died...
...other victims. Said Graham: "The pain of her experience was so far in the past that I don't see what risk she is taking now." He was loudly and raucously outvoted, and an indignant Medlock threw a cushion at her husband. "One man's Giraffe is another's turkey," grinned Medlock...
...likely that love that kept Randy's rocking peers reasonably respectful of his musical interests. The family was Baptist affiliated, but Daddy Harold Traywick, a hard-tempered turkey farmer and horse trader, and Mama Bobbie, a textile worker, bent the church rules a little bit and had the kids perform at V.F.W. halls and Moose lodges, doing a country act as the Traywick Brothers. (Randy changed to his current moniker when he signed with Warner Bros. Records, which suggested that "Travis" might sound a little . . . well, fleeter...
...Iran Air passengers were fromIran. The others were from India, Italy, Pakistan,Turkey, Yugoslavia and the United Arab Emirates...