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...precisely what Madrid politicians fear most. For months there has been talk among the military and right-wing civilians about simultaneously ending both the constant threat of terrorist acts by Basque separatists and the bothersome problems of Spanish democracy a la turca-in the style of the tough Turkish generals who took over their country last fall...
During an airline hijacking, the passengers are usually cowed and careful. But last week, after four young, armed Turks, members of a leftist terrorist group, diverted a Turkish Air Lines DC-9 to Bulgaria and demanded the release of 47 of their comrades in Turkish prisons, the hostages boldly decided to strike back. By the second day, according to the plane's pilot Barlas Akidil, "we had received several signs from the passengers that they were very eager to get rid of the terrorists...
...from Ankara to his home town of Malatya in eastern Anatolia and, in February 1980, to the town of Erzurum, 150 miles from the Iranian border. He then disappeared into Iran. Exactly where he went thereafter is a mystery. West German officials doubt that Agca visited their country, although Turkish sources claim Agca and another N.A.P. terrorist were seen near Stuttgart. Stamps in his forged passport indicate that Agca spent time in Spain. He is known to have visited Tunisia. Agca claims to have traveled to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Britain, France, Belgium, West Germany and Denmark...
Could Agca have managed all this without help? He had handled the pistol like a trained marksman. A Rome police spokesman said his forged passport was "absolutely perfect. He could not have produced it alone." (Turkish police say they have arrested two men and a woman in connection with the passport forgery.) Was it possible that Agca could have financed his 16-month stay in Europe, as he claimed, through "the gifts of friends"? Authorities were by no means sure but at week's end they still believed he had probably been acting alone...
...interesting case. Saroyan was born in Fresno, son of Armenian refugees who fled the Turkish massacres at the beginning of the century. He knew the wrench of separation and the insular poverty of California's little Armenias: Saroyan's early years were spent in an orphanage after his father died and his mother had to work full time. Like the young bringer of good news and bad in his screenplay turned novel The Human Comedy, Saroyan began his working life as a telegraph boy. When his short story The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze...