Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good for a luge racer." Tucker was born in San Juan, where his father distributed motion pictures for RKO. He lived there five of his 36 years, but spent the larger part around Albany, N.Y., irregularly pursuing a doctorate in physics among other degrees of understanding. Introduced as "George Turkey" by the Yugoslav public address announcer, Tucker muses, "He knows more English than he lets on," and takes off on another practice slide down a jagged icicle that meanders like a teardrop through the piny woods on Trebevic Mountain. With the Sarajevo Games opening this week, rehearsal time is precious...
...Dortmund's Borussia soccer team regularly sing Nazi songs and chant Heil, Hitler! in the stands and terrorize immigrants after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi groups threatened that the Kreuzberg ghetto would "go up in flames" on the day of the game...
...enough to make his homeland seem doubly attractive. "I am homesick," he says. "It's the same thing each year. I save my money, then I spend it all taking my family to Turkey on holiday. I've been back 13 times in 15 years. I dream sometimes of having a business...
Lebanon has a history of its own, an identity of its own and a destiny of its own. Our national heroes, such as Fakhr-al-Din II and Bashir the Great, ruled Lebanon from the 16th to the 19th century independent of Turkey. They made Lebanon a haven for persecuted minorities and flung open the doors to allow free cultural and economic relations with the West. The failure of the world to grasp this reality has harmed Lebanon...
Today Sardis is the home of about 25 American and Turkish scholars each summer. They employ modern scientific methods in their research--sediment coring erosion and land use studies--as well as traditional methods of archaeological excavation and scholarly research. None of the antiquities can be taken out of Turkey, so photographs and records of the finds are sent to the U.S. while the more glamorous artifacts are deposited in a museum in the provincial capital of Manisa...