Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan will be the winner, have left an intriguing idea on the White House doorstep. They would like to see Reagan have his Thanksgiving dinner at Camp David and invite such Democratic stalwarts as Louisiana Senator Russell Long, Illinois Congressman Danny Rostenkowski and Oklahoma Congressman James Jones. After the turkey and pumpkin pie, Reagan should take his goblet of Cabernet Sauvignon and ask everyone there to pledge himself to a great legislative crusade to reform the tax system, raise revenue, cut spending and banish those hideous deficits. For that kind of commitment, the American people would surely give thanks...
...Sicilian Mafia began to provide heroin. In the old days, say federal authorities, opium was grown in Turkey, shipped to Marseilles, France, where it was processed by Corsicans, and then imported into the U.S. by American Mafia families headed by the Genovese family and others. The cracking of the so-called French connection in the early 1970s and the virtual elimination, under U.S. pressure, of opium growing in Turkey all but closed that international trade route...
...Under Secretary of Defense Antonios Drosoyannis called it "one of the most advantageous deals that Greece has gotten out of its alliance with NATO." That was surprising, since Papandreou has often declared that his country faces no threat from the Warsaw Pact. One clue to the inconsistency is that Turkey has already joined the AW ACS program, so Greece evidently did not want to be outdone by its neighbor and traditional enemy...
Since there is neither room nor occasion to put everybody up at once, pilgrimages to the old folks' place are made individually. Gone are the days when, say, over a turkey, the family had the chance to take the full measure of itself. Now each pilgrim takes back a piece of his heritage, something that was overlooked when the possessions were divided before the move took place. (Here is a yellowed card, signed on Feb. 12, 1911, confirming membership in the "Abstinence Department of the Anti-Saloon League." It pledges abstinence, saying further that intoxicating beverages are "productive...
...fulminations against the "evil empire." Said Reagan: "America has repaired its strength; we have invigorated our alliances and friendships. We are ready for constructive negotiations with the Soviet Union." Translation: two or three years ago, in Reagan's view, the U.S. was not militarily strong enough to talk turkey with the Soviets...