Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Situated between the Middle East and Turkey and lucrative Western markets in Europe and the U.S., the countries of Eastern Europe lie along a prime trafficking route. In Communist Yugoslavia, which is not part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...
After returning home, he worked on policy and planning at Marine headquarters. During the aborted 1980 mission to free the U.S. hostages in Tehran, North led a detachment of Marines who were poised in Turkey to assist the rescuers. A year later, while studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to the attention of Navy Secretary John Lehman because of a paper he wrote extolling the modern military uses of the battleship. Lehman pushed North onto the NSC staff, where he quickly became known as an ardent Reaganite. He was an obsessive worker; starting...
...early '80s, it was clear that this immensely publicized structure was, ; at least in its primary role as a museum, a turkey. It differed from most other architectural turkeys by wearing its entrails outside its skin. Its architects, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, had festooned its four sides with such a tangle of ducts, pipes, risers and shafts that it became the first steel-and-glass building to exclude almost all natural light from its cavernous interior. Since Beaubourg was meant to be (in the jargon of the day) a culturally transparent, non-elitist, participatory, anti-hierarchical, modular omnisensorium...
...none of the above sounds appealing, alcohol is also a useful item in weaning computer weanies away from their terminals. Start with a mild of fering such as Bailey's Irish Cream. For hackers already in the cold turkey process, something harder, Stolichnaya 100 proof vodka may be best...
Since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, the Israelis have tried to cultivate relations with non-Arab nations in the Middle East, such as Turkey and Iran. While the Shah was in power, Israel openly supplied arms to the Iranian military. But Israeli intelligence also cultivated ties with Iranian army officials after the 1979 revolution. In order to keep the relationship strong, then Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin shipped weapons and ammunition to Tehran in early...