Word: turkeys
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Notes Richard Betts, who teaches defense policy at Columbia and Johns Hopkins universities: "More often, the significant supplier influence precedes rather than follows the sale. Once a sale is final the supplier's leverage declines." The recent U.S. experience with Turkey shows how customers can exert leverage on their suppliers. When Congress voted to ban all military sales to Turkey after its 1974 invasion of Cyprus, the Ankara government promptly shut down some U.S. bases and listening posts, many of which provided valuable intelligence surveillance of the Soviet Union. Mindful of Turkey's importance to NATO's Eastern flank...
...former heroin addict gazes out the window of a New York City drug rehabilitation center. "Over there, the weather has been good. That is greatly appreciated on these streets." Sunny skies have made for bumper poppy crops in Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan over the last three years. The increasing availability of this so-called Golden Crescent heroin has spurred a marked rise in the use of this and other drugs in the united States. Not associated with a general ethos of disillusion or uncertainty, as was the drug movement of the late '60s and early '70s, today's crescendo...
...class voters, Papandreou has toned down some of his earlier stands, but they are still anti-NATO and anti-American. Papandreou once favored Greek withdrawal from NATO; now he says the step should not be taken until Greece can defend itself, a long-term prospect, at best. He sees Turkey, his country's traditional rival, as the main threat, not the Soviet Union. His election would probably widen the split between Greece and Turkey, and thus further weaken NATO'S southern flank. Papandreou used to demand that the U.S. abandon its four bases in Greece* now he would...
...their journey, trekking first to Perth via the Australian desert. After enlistment they are shipped out to Egypt for training. Finally, they sail for the shores of Ottoman Turkey...
...fact, shredding the sound track may not be such a bad idea. Except for a handful of faltering scenes--an insipid look on a wife bidding her husband farewell when he leaves for Turkey, a near descent into bathos after the first battle scene and a few half-hearted scenes of soldiers at liberty in the market in Egypt--the sounds that accompany Boyd's overwhelming images are the film's only flaw. Even the zipping and buzzing muzak noises would not be so awful except that Weir repeatedly splices between them Albinoni's dirge-like Adagio in G minor...