Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early last year, and eight other senior Algerian officials were en route to Tehran to try to end the war that has racked Iran and Iraq for 19 months. But as Benyahia's Grumman Gulfstream II executive jet last week flew near the point where the borders of Turkey, Iran and Iraq meet, it was apparently attacked and shot down. Everyone aboard the plane was killed...
...Mohammed Seddik Benyahia, 50, Algeria's astute Foreign Minister and a key negotiatior in the release of the 52 Americans held hostage by Iran; in a plane crash under mysterious circumstances while on a peace-seeking mission to end the Iraq-Iran war (see WORLD); near the Iran-Turkey border. The ascetic-looking Benyahia was a guerrilla fighter and a founding father of the Algerian revolution of 1954-62. In 1979 he became Foreign Minister and played a decisive role in the postwar reconciliation between his country and France. After mediating the hostage crisis, he formally handed over...
After eight years of negotiations, 130 nations last week approved a draft of a new treaty designed to extend the rule of international law to much of the high seas. The U.S., Turkey, Venezuela and Israel opposed the document. Seventeen nations, including many in Western Europe and the entire Soviet bloc except Rumania, abstained...
...exposes a beach full of muscle builders, sexual athletes and Esther Williams-style chorus lines. Orbs (1966) harks back to the wedding scene in Martha Graham's landmark Appalachian Spring. Here, however, the screwball marriage takes place in "Terrestrial Autumn," where a drunk polkas with a rubber turkey...
...weekend two more bodies were found below the village on the paved highway. One was a local woodcutter; the other was a stranger. None of the residents made a move to carry off or bury the corpses. By noon, as air strikes continued to hit the nearby hills, fat turkey vultures began to gather in the trees below Osicala...