Word: turkeys
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...classified as a democracy, is in certain respects just as harsh and repressive as many regimes classified as dictatorships. The simple litmus test for freedom and civil rights applicable in advanced societies (although they are often violated there as well) cannot be used, for instance, in a country like Turkey, which for decades was ravaged by civil strife and terror. The executive editor of the New York Times, A.M. Rosenthal, asked unhappily in a recent magazine article: "Do we really only have (a) choice between the lesser of evils?" In many cases and in much of the world, that...
...brightest pop stars of the 1970s. Then one day Cat Stevens announced that he was giving up singing to become a Muslim. Now, nine years later, the singer of such hits as Moonshadow and Peace Train has just finished an eleven-day visit to Turkey from his home in London. "My records sold all over Europe, but I was not a man of show business," Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, told Turkish reporters. "I was feeling lost. But once I read the Koran I took refuge in the guidance of Allah. This took the place of secular things. All my concepts...
Also, good doctors get good patients. Their patients are all wealthy which means they are smarter than the average guy who just happens to be the turkey waiting at UHS to get inferior treatment, which proves how dumb he is; and he is the kind of patient UHS gets, which proves that their doctors are not any good or they would get better patients...
...trial was further hindered by language barriers and international red tape. The court made 24 trips to take testimony in West Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Switzerland and France. Recalls Santiapichi: "With almost a hundred witnesses in court and defendants who spoke in three different languages, we were slowed down." To hear one witness in the Netherlands, the session had to be conducted in Turkish, Dutch, German and Italian. Quipped a visiting Australian judge at the sight of translators for the Bulgarian and Turkish defendants: "This is the trial of Babel...
Meanwhile, George Shultz, who was in the midst of a European trip in search of assurances that U.S. bases would remain in Greece and Turkey, held a press conference in Ankara at which his usually stony face fairly beamed with satisfaction. He defended the exercise off Libya as a simple assertion of "traditional maritime rights," but later described the action as "blowing the whistle" on Gaddafi. Shultz was one of the first U.S. officials affected by a stepped-up alert against potential Libyan terrorist reprisals. When he left Ankara for Athens, his Boeing 707 was escorted by a team...