Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attendance will be government leaders from the U.S., Britain, Canada, West Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Iceland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Spain. Since France's formal withdrawal from NATO'S military command in 1966, its President does not attend summit meetings. Mitterrand, however, will be at the opening dinner. Premier Pierre Mauroy will represent France at the summit...
DIED. Cevdet Sunay, 82, President of Turkey from 1966 to 1973; of a heart attack; in Istanbul. A cautious architect of political compromise, Sunay helped preserve Turkey's fragile democracy during a turbulent period when the military and parliament frequently clashed...
...prohibitive 17%, fell below 12%. But in an attempt to salvage the housing industry, both the House and the Senate are voting to spend money the Government does not have for a program whose impact is questionable. Said Republican Representative Dick Cheney of Wyoming: "The bill is a turkey...
Steven Spielberg did grow up. He became rich and famous as the director who enjoyed playing with sharks, spacemen and snakes-and turning these fearsome critters into the stuff of blockbusters. Jaws, which Spielberg and Producer Richard Zanuck had feared might prove to be "a shark with turkey feathers," terrified moviegoers to the tune of $410 million. Close Encounters of the Third Kind built a sense of biblical awe around man's first meeting with beings from outer space and put another $250 million into the till. Last year Raiders of the Lost Ark sent Saturday-matinee chills down...
...quiet way, Pérez de Cuéllar had shown before that he could be an effective go-between. In 1975, while representing Peru in the U.N., he was tapped by Waldheim to try to start talks between Greece and Turkey in the wake of Turkey's 1974 invasion of Cyprus. Pérez de Cuéllar succeeded. He later took on a similar assignment to sort out difficulties between Afghanistan and Pakistan following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...