Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loose federation of all European countries. Until that vision is realized, our policy is one of detente and of freezing weapons (deployment), especially missiles. At the / same time, we recognize the need for balance to help preserve peace. Greece is different from other NATO countries. The threat from Turkey is something we live with 24 hours a day, (but) this alliance does not give us any guarantees against attack by another member...
...tenth-largest campaign contributor to Congressmen in 1984. Yet, despite this clout, most dairy farmers realize that some reforms are inevitable. "We want to be less dependent on subsidies," says James Jarvis, a small dairy farmer in Wautoma, Wis. "But we can't be cut off cold turkey. We've got to be let down slow...
...United Nations convention opposing torture. But the world has a long way to go. Amnesty International, a London- based human rights group, says 98 nations currently practice torture, more than 30 of them systematically. Among the leading offenders, according to Amnesty International, are Iran, Chile, Libya, Pakistan and Turkey. The number of those affected is said to run into the tens of thousands annually, with perhaps 1,000 survivors reaching safety each year in the West...
...Congress for an extra $150 million for El Salvador. Central America is expected to continue to receive a large portion of the military-aid allotment. The White House also wants Congress to nearly double the $9 million for Peru to help it fend off guerrilla insurgents. Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Philippines, which are host to U.S. bases, get a high priority for military aid; assistance to the Philippines will jump from $45 million to a proposed $100 million to help it fight a growing rebel movement...
...comfortable with wealth and power even as he chews a wad of Red Man tobacco, spitting the juice into a paper cup. A well-educated scion of a prominent line of Houston attorneys, he enjoys fishing with his buddies in the waters of Matagorda Bay and hunting wild turkey on his land near San Antonio. He is a managerial mastermind who relaxes by watching pro football games and listening to Tammy Wynette records...