Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks on arms limitation. After that, he hinted, will come a variety of other meetings-possibly including direct negotiations with Cuba. Later this month the President will send Washington Lawyer (and former Defense Secretary) Clark Clifford to Cyprus, to explore the possibilities for a settlement between Greek and Turkish Cypriots...
...flaunted affairs with Chopin, de Musset and innumerable other artists and writers, her publicized separation from her husband (who probably fathered only one of the two children bearing his name), even her attire and habits--she regularly appeared in Parisian theatres sporting a suit of man's clothes, smoking Turkish cigarettes--provided reams of copy for 19th century scandal sheets and an inexhaustible gossip topic for European salons. But in this new biography, Joseph Barry correctly points out that Sand was more than the mistress of famous men and deserves to be recognized as such. She was a prolific...
Cyprus Prelate-President Archbishop Makarios considers 13 his lucky number. He was born on Aug. 13, 1913, and frequently chooses the 13th of the month for important meetings. Last week, for the first time in 13 years, Makarios held a meeting in Nicosia with his archrival, Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktas, to begin thrashing out the differences between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that have long engulfed the island in fratricide. Details of the talks were not disclosed, but.it seemed that Makarios was in luck. Later, he described the talks as "a breakthrough" and "a good step toward a settlement." Said...
...goddaughter of Napoleon's first wife Josephine de Beauharnais might be expected to live a somewhat sheltered life, is violated twelve times on three continents by five men. On top of that, she gives a command performance for Napoleon, suffers a miscarriage, undergoes captivity in a Turkish harem and is sold as a slave in Louisiana. Why is the heroine subjected to all these horrors? Cynics might imagine that Marisa's martyrdom is merely intended to offer the bored middle-class female a succession of vicarious masochistic thrills, but Author Rogers seems to think that regular ravishment...
...long, however, before a stream of international aid began to supplement the Turkish efforts. A fleet of 25 U.S. military cargo planes ferried tents, blankets, stoves and fuel from Europe. Iran, West Germany, Italy and other nations added similar supplies, plus medicine and blood plasma. Saudi Arabia pledged $5 million to the relief effort. The Turkish government announced that survivors who wished to move would be settled outside the quake area, in schools and student hostels. Due to the frozen ground in eastern Turkey, reconstruction of the shattered homes is unlikely to start before spring...