Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the major decisions about last week's events took place in Washington, State Department Correspondent Johanna McGeary found herself closer to the action than she had anticipated. Flying over the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece with Secretary of State George Shultz, McGeary was startled to see the red lights of fighter jets nosing up on either wing of Shultz's plane. Officials aboard quickly reassured reporters that the planes were friendly F-4 Phantoms assigned to protect one of the Reagan Administration's chief advocates of forceful action against terrorism...
Hanfmann is best known for his leadership of the archaeological excavations at Sardis in western Turkey, where he led the Harvard-Cornell archaeological expedition from 1958 to 1978. He remained senior editor and adviser for this expedition until his death...
More troubling, it was still unclear whether the assassination was politically motivated. Police remained skeptical of claims by the West German terror group the Red Army Faction that it was responsible. Attention instead focused on activists from the obscure Kurdish Workers' Party, a group of political exiles from Turkey who, last August, vowed vengeance against the Swedish government for labeling them "terrorists...
...negotiators were forced to carry out their mission from Istanbul, Turkey. And after countless meetings with United Nations officials, representatives of Iranian factions, and Middle Eastern diplomats with Iranian contacts, Miller secured the release of twelve embassy hostages...
...Turkey Deluxe is one thing, life and limb another, so I politely explained that I had simply been on my way to see if anyone would hire a vacationing Social Studies concentrator, and I had thought it funny that an actor with fewer lines than Rin-Tin-Tin had won a dramatic award. As it released me, it winked, "Social Studies, huh? Well, have a nice day, comrade...