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...York Times, Wall Street Journal and all three TV networks, then returned from a quick trip to El Salvador for a Friday speech to the National Press Club. Regan logged 23 sessions with newsmagazines, columnists and other journalists, while Poindexter got himself interviewed by representatives of British, French, German, Turkish and Norwegian TV stations. He sought out American reporters so avidly that ABC Correspondent Sam Donaldson, approached by Poindexter in a White House corridor, recoiled in mock horror and said, "No, no, you can't force me to interview...
They were only by-elections for eleven of 400 parliamentary seats, but they were a crucial test of political strength. When the results were in last week, the big winner was Suleyman Demirel, 61, the six-time former Turkish Prime Minister whose center-right True Path Party won four seats and 23.5% of the vote...
...Israeli government. Seven months later, in November 1982, another entrepreneur completed a 326-room, $20 million hotel at Taba. The builder, Eli Papouchado, knew that ownership of the land was disputed, but says he went ahead with government approval. Israel bases its claim to Taba on a 1906 Turkish map that delineated the border between Egypt and Palestine, which was then a province of the Ottoman empire. According to that document, the line ran close to three palm trees that still exist. The Egyptian counterclaim hinges on a 1915 map drawn up by British military surveyors, including T.E. Lawrence...
...news was that Middle East terrorism was again on the increase. Neither Pakistani authorities investigating the attempted hijacking of a Pan American airliner in Karachi two weeks ago nor Turkish police probing the massacre of 21 worshipers at a synagogue in Istanbul had yet announced the identity of the perpetrators or their mentors. In Lebanon, meanwhile, gunmen kidnaped two more Americans in West Beirut, bringing to six the number of U.S. citizens who, along with a dozen foreigners of other nationalities, are believed to be held hostage in that country by various terrorist groups. And in southern Lebanon, after Palestinian...
...government has a secular constitution, and religious freedom is respected throughout the country. In addition, Islamic practice forbids an attack on anyone at worship, even a non-Muslim enemy. Remarking on that prohibition, Ozal told reporters, "It is inconceivable to do this to people who come together to pray." Turkish police had reportedly not given the synagogue any special protection because no house of worship in the country had ever been assaulted...