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Israel fired off a test missile as a warning to the Iraqis. Air raid sirens wailed mysteriously in Jordan. Turkish villagers said Iraqi tanks had rumbled into position near the Turkey-Iraq border. And Iraq closed its frontiers for foreigners, heightening concerns about hundreds of Americans stranded in Iraq and Kuwait...
Neither centuries under Turkish and Austro-Hungarian domination nor more than four decades of communist rule have obliterated the ethnic passions that made the Balkans a synonym for fractious politics. Now, with the communist world crumbling, new instability may follow the glum quiet of the Pax Sovietica. The peril exists side by side with the opportunity for healthy change, but the current political ferment of Eastern Europe is an inherently volatile mix in which old demons -- belligerent nationalism and demagogic populism -- could win out as easily as liberal democracy...
...purpose is to discourage any of the 2 million or so visitors from staying on illegally; a fine of 1,604 riyal (about $430) is levied for each person recorded as entering the country who does not appear on a checklist of those leaving. This year companies bearing the Turkish faithful home have so far been forced to pay some 200,000 riyal ($54,000) for no-shows. The trouble is, almost all of them were probably among the 1,426 killed in the July 2 tunnel disaster. The Turkish government is complaining that Saudi officials hastily interred many...
Other brightspots for next year's Crimson will include the return of coach Ishan Gurdal, who was forced to step down midway through the season in order to serve in the Turkish Army. Judy Merryman, who replaced Gurdal, will return as an assistant. The tandem could prove to be very succesful because each has different strengths as a coach...
Unfortunately for the Crimson, its result last night under new Coach Judy Merryman was the same as it had been under departed Coach Ihsan Gurdal, who left the squad last week to serve a mandatory two month stint in the Turkish army...