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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Apocalypse Now or The Deerhunter, war in Gallipoli does not resemble an all-consuming vortex. Instead, war, specifically Winston Churchill's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign into Ottoman Turkey, waits patiently at the end of the film. For Gallipoli concerns getting to the front and the adventures en route as much as the conflict on the 60-mile-long Turkish peninsula...

Author: By Daniel S. Benjamin, | Title: The Runners Stumble | 10/7/1981 | See Source »

With the estuary closed, Iraq has had to ship its oil through a pipe line to Turkey. Iran, which has never exported oil through the estuary, has continued to use its terminals directly on the gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Persian Gulf: Stalemate in a Forgotten War | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...Enforcement Administration, which applies laws only against illegal use of controlled substances. But the U.S. Postal Service has filed complaints against 39 mail-order companies, charging them with misrepresenting the safety of their products. Delaware was the first of several states to pass special statutes against lookalikes, known as "turkey" laws, so named because "turkey" is the street term for phony drugs. Probably no serious headway will be made, however, until the Federal Government finds a way to block the look-alike loophole with a uniform national...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Look-Alikes: a New Drug Danger | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Amid the outpouring of dry statistics, the rich fabric of an independent culture has begun to emerge, one so affluent that it may well have rivaled ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia. In the halcyon years of the archive (c. 2350-2250 B.C.), the metropolis lured traders from Persia, present-day Turkey, Lebanon, Damascus, Sumer and Egypt. Students journeyed from Mari, Kish and Emar to enroll at the academy, then went back home to practice their craft. The prosperity was partly due to Ebla's agricultural acumen. One tablet records the warehousing of 548,500 measures of barley-enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: An Ancient City Lives | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

Once aloft, Moezi veered from the flight plan he had filed and headed west. The plane was actually over Turkey when it was caught by three Iranian Phantom jets. The fighter pilots radioed threats to shoot down the tanker but did not fire. One likely explanation: the fighter pilots' great respect for Moezi himself. Says Rajavi: "Had it been any other pilot than Moezi, we would have died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Great Escape | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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