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...smoke and confusion that followed, Turkish officials initially believed two or three other terrorists escaped. Police immediately launched a manhunt around the city for them. Authorities tightened security at the city's gates, and Arab students were detained for questioning in Istanbul and Ankara, the capital. Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal convened an emergency Cabinet meeting in Ankara to review the situation and then dispatched Interior Minister Yildirim Akbulut to oversee the investigation in Istanbul. But after extensive searches, police said they believed only two terrorists were involved, and both had died in the attack...
Puttnam's name was first broached for his new job at a lunch on June 10 between Fay Vincent, Columbia Pictures Industries' chairman, and Thomas Lewyn, Puttnam's lawyer. Vincent had known the British producer since Puttnam made the Turkish jail saga Midnight Express for Columbia in 1978. Ten days later, Vincent traveled to London to meet with the producer. After wavering a bit, Puttnam accepted Columbia's offer...
Police sources said all the dead worshipers were Turkish men, and Akbulut said most were elderly. However, Anatolia said the dead included an unidentified visiting rabbi from Israel...
Master Chief Boatswain's Mate John Davidson from Malden, Mass., didn't have to come out of retirement to be selected. He had first sailed on the Missouri as a seaman first class in 1946 when she carried the body of the wartime Turkish Ambassador to the U.S. back to Istanbul to be buried. Since then he's seen ports of call from Australia to Italy and been tattooed by the best in Norfolk, Va., Hong Kong, Yokohama and Pearl Harbor. With just over 40 years in service, Davidson isn't padding his pension. He can't improve...
...flight with 360 passengers aboard. Evidence also surfaced that could tie the Syrians to a West Berlin explosion that destroyed the German-Arab Friendship Society, and possibly to a subsequent blast at La Belle discotheque in the same city. The nightclub bombing, which killed a U.S. soldier and a Turkish woman and wounded another 230 people, was one of the terrorist outrages that Ronald Reagan blamed on Libya and cited as justification for the April 15 U.S. raids on Libyan targets. It is conceivable that both Syria and Libya were involved in the discotheque bombing, since some Arab terrorist organizations...