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...Pericles' day could have imagined that the Parthenon would explode in 1687, destroying 14 of its exterior columns, when Turkish gunpowder stored inside it was hit by true-eyed artillery men of the Venetian Republic, firing near by from the Hill of the Muses? Or that in the 19th century, the seventh Earl of Elgin would carry down from the hill pediment statues and one maidenly caryatid, all doomed to sail in ships made of wood to a foreign place not loved by thundering Zeus, the British Museum...
...were shocked and dismayed to read in your coverage [Aug. 8] of the Turkish embassy incident in Lisbon your description of the 1915 genocide of 1.5 million Armenians as an "alleged 1915 massacre." The undeniable truth is that the massacre did take place and that at least 1 million Armenians died (the often cited estimate being 1.5 million...
...famous Marian shrines as Fatima in Portugal, Guadalupe in Mexico and Czestochowa in his native Poland. But a prospective 1981 visit to the most famous shrine of all, at Lourdes in southwestern France, had to be postponed when the Pope was shot in St. Peter's Square by Turkish Gunman Mehmet Ali Agca. John Paul believes that he owes his recovery from that attack to the Virgin Mary. Thus his two-day trip to Lourdes last week, marking the 125th anniversary of a shrine associated with healing, was a kind of thanks...
...Armenian attacks have been unrelenting. Three weeks ago, Armenian terrorists gunned down a Turkish embassy attaché in Brussels; on the following day, they planted a bomb near the Turkish Airlines counter at Paris' Orly Airport, leaving 55 wounded and seven dead. During the past decade, 36 Turkish envoys have been assassinated abroad, including four in the U.S. In Turkey the Armenians were murdering several Turks each day until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA...
...Armenians are so set on haunting and harassing the Turks that they will menace anyone who tries to stop them. In April 1982, France was reviled by the Turkish government for allegedly sanctioning the Armenian cause and for tolerating more than 40 attacks against Turks in the space of eight years. Now the French are not safe from Armenian rancor either. After Parisian authorities arrested Armenians suspected of being responsible for the Orly bombing, ASALA threatened to "spill more blood" unless the captives were released. Given the terrorists' record, there was every reason to believe that past grievances would...