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...Look, planes!" Fortunately for the TIME staffer accompanying Yasser Arafat on his flight across the Middle East last week, they were not Israeli aircraft, which Arafat charges have recently been trying to ambush him. They were Turkish jet fighters, 16 of them, and they rose in waves to provide a protective escort as Arafat's plane flew over the Iraqi border and into Turkey. The U.S.-made F-16s hugged Arafat's wing tips, and their pilots saluted the Palestinian leader. "They were so close, I could see their eyes," recalls Murray Gart, the TIME senior correspondent on board Arafat...
...changed much," says Prager, "despite some bitter years since then. He has an amazing ability to bounce back from defeat and make himself essential to the Palestinian cause." Still eager to talk, Arafat later bumped an aide and a bodyguard from the return flight to Baghdad -- again with the Turkish air force escorting -- to make room for Prager, Gart and photographer Thomas Hartwell. For Gart, the extended interview provided "one of the more memorable experiences" in 40 years of journalism. "It was like being on a magic carpet," he says, "but I wouldn't have wanted to be there...
Serbia. Kosovo. The names rise up like wraiths from the mists of European history, evoking episodes that dispatched the tumbrels of war throughout the Old Continent 74 summers ago, or paved the way a half-millennium earlier for the Turkish domination of the Balkans. It was at Sarajevo in June 1914 that a Serbian-trained assassin shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, igniting World War I. And it was at Kosovo Field in 1389 that the Ottomans snuffed out Serbian independence...
...Over the years I've taught Hebrew, Arabic, early, middle and late Persian, Turkish and Pashto," Frye says. "And that's actually pretty difficult. One of the things people don't realize is that all those languages are very different. It would be like having one professor of romance languages...
...power in the sport. The most notable exception was Turkey's Naim Suleymanoglu, 21, the "Pocket Hercules," who at 4 ft. 11 in. set three world records in the 132-lb. class and gave his country its first gold medal since 1968. But Suleymanoglu was born in Bulgaria, of Turkish parents, and trained there until his 1986 defection to Turkey...