Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Working with U.S. military police, West German agents last month arrested 29 people for illegal possession of heroin in the southern town of Oppenheim. The raid netted 24 American G.I.s from near by Anderson Barracks. Also caught were two Turkish immigrant workers and three West German women, including one 24-year-old who was the ring's alleged leader. In all, police seized quantities of heroin worth $164,000 at street prices. Even though American soldiers were involved, U.S. military personnel have long ceased to be the main source of West Germany's narcotics problem. Trafficking and addiction...
...France, The Netherlands and the U.S., the West German drug trade is mainly in the hands of individual entrepreneurs selling the stuff on their own. This makes it all the more difficult to stem the tide. Arrest statistics indicate that a very high proportion of the smugglers are Turkish immigrants, who constitute about 2% of West Germany's population of 61 million. Complains one beleaguered West German narcotics agent: "You can't search everyone who crosses the border." So much heroin has been flowing into the country that the street price has fallen drastically over the past year...
...than Brook's wimpy, self-effacing Gurdjieff (Dragan Maksimovic). Human saintliness plays better on the big screen when it is accompanied by thunder and lightning. Brook's film is based on the mystic's autobiography. The tale begins in a small town on the Russian-Turkish border where Gurdjieff grew up. From there, the young seeker begins a series of exotic adventures: encounters with various eclectic holy men, a trek through the Gobi Desert and finally a rendezvous with a mysterious sect known as the Sarmoung Brotherhood. These incidents are lavishly described by Brook, who builds...
That will not happen any time soon, and the Chicago crash is shaping up as the most expensive aviation liability case to date. The record for damages is now held by the crash in 1974 of a Turkish Air lines DC-10 near Paris, which has so far cost its insurers some $68 million. But because of inflation and because the passengers were Americans with higher earning potential, the Chicago crash could cost as much as $200 million in claims, which may take several years to settle. Says one Los Angeles attorney: "I call it the megabucks of Chicago...
...probably the most exciting part of the course is the coursewide simulation which last year dealt with the Greek-Turkish conflict over Cyprus in 1974. The class split into a number of teams which then tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the confrontation...