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...whose philosophy is that beauty should be available to the masses, has built entire homes, pavilions and churches (some of them permanent), using little more than cardboard tubes. Many of Ban’s paper-based masterpieces have been used in disaster relief, such as U.N. refugee shelters in Turkey and Rwanda and community houses in Kobe after the 1995 earthquake. This exhibit features 16 of Ban’s projects documented through architectural and engineering drawings, images and text, as well as special installations and prototypes. See full story in Feb. 7 section. Through March 16. Hours...
Despite the tough talk, the Bush administration needs its war in Iraq to be authorized by the UN Security Council. That much is a basic requirement for crucial allies ranging from Britain to Turkey, and will be even more important in managing a potentially chaotic post-Saddam Iraq - the proverbial "hard part" of any war, the administration is staying the course with a diplomatic process that could continue into next month. The U.S and Britain are currently working on a new resolution to presented to the Security Council, possibly later this week. But reports indicate that this resolution will stop...
...response from Turkey is instructive: Ankara has indicated that it would support a war only if the U.S. coughs up more than $30 billion in financial aid to Turkey, and gets UN authorization to assuage the country's overwhelmingly antiwar public opinion. The Turks have also insisted that the price tag for allowing the U.S. to mount an invasion from their territory includes Turkey's right to protect its own interests in Northern Iraq, where it may be on a collision course with local Kurdish leaders. Turkey is unconvinced by the case for war, but will make practical arrangements...
...screaming. That noise level was something new in pop performances--beyond Frank Sinatra's, even beyond Elvis'." Retired correspondent Bruce van Voorst was on the chartered Air France 747 that carried Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini from his Parisian exile back to Tehran on Feb. 1, 1979. "At sunrise, somewhere over Turkey," remembers Van Voorst, "the Ayatullah said prayers, then wa* As served an omelet for breakfast...
Turkish troops have good reason for wanting to know what the Kurds are up to. A separatist guerrilla group is based in craggy mountains along the Turkey-Iraq border. To contain them, Turkey is planning ahead in other ways, a senior Turkish official said: its military has won U.S. approval to establish 17 refugee camps--10 of them on Iraqi soil--as soon as war starts. Ankara wants to avoid a repeat of 1991, when a flood of 450,000 Kurdish refugees into Turkey was joined by armed insurgents who went on to reignite a civil war. Turkish-controlled camps...