Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buses, somehow learned that the plot had been frustrated and went into hiding. Other insurgents in Tehran were supposed to attack the Central Committee of Islamic Militiamen simultaneously. Some were captured before firing a shot, while the rest fled-as did two air force officers who flew to Turkey in a helicopter and requested asylum...
...wave of immigrants come from Turkey, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and a dozen other impoverished Third World nations. After entering West Germany as visitors, they immediately apply for political asylum under the constitution that was adopted after World War II as a deliberate antidote to the racist, exclusionary laws of the Nazi era. Article 16 of the constitution guarantees the right of asylum to those persecuted on political grounds and Article 19 assures the right to appeal any denial of asylum...
...Europe accuses Washington of having no strategy toward the Soviets in the present crisis, what is Europe's strategy? Where are the practical suggestions or initiatives for joint action, other than the vague notion of a neutralized Afghanistan? Yes, the Germans are being helpful in snoring up Turkey; the French are always willing to send some paratroopers to trouble spots-and such actions should not be underestimated. On the other hand, the .European Community's recent Middle East initiative only strengthened the Begin government's intransigence. It runs the risk, even in its toned-down version...
...southern neighbors, from Turkey to Pakistan, the Kremlin leadership is treading carefully lest it stir up restlessness among its own Muslims...
...environmentalists had to overcome the mutual mistrust of such traditional antagonists as Israel and Syria, Greece and Turkey. Shrewdly, the U.N. team put off seeking consensus on such volatile issues as costs and set about gathering evidence first. It designed and helped fund a regional pollution monitoring system that included 84 laboratories to document conditions in the waters. The labs turned up some hopeful signs: the absorption capacity of the Mediterranean proved to be greater than many experts had imagined, and pollution levels were not uniformly critical. Concluded Stjepan Keckes, the Yugoslav marine scientist who headed the U.N. team...