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...grade-school dropout who earned more than $173,000 last year, Whittingham figures to have another banner year in 1972. He still has Cougar II, one of the top money winners last year ($416,022), as well as such top-rated horses as Daryl's Joy and Turkish Trousers. Though his horses have won more than $12 million over the years, Whittingham says: "I haven't got any special tricks. I just know my horses and treat them as individuals...
...that Sofia has refrained from joining in the recent chorus of attacks by Hungary, East Germany and Czechoslovakia against Rumania's independent foreign policy. Even though Bulgaria and Turkey are members of rival military alignments, they are cooperating on several important issues. Sofia is allowing Bulgarian citizens of Turkish origin to emigrate to Turkey, and the two countries have just opened a rail line that directly links them without going through Greece. In turn, Greece is a frequent target of Bulgarian propaganda, but Sofia earlier this year signed a pact for joint economic and scientific cooperation with Athens. Sofia...
Greece and Rumania are cozying up by frequent ministerial meetings and increasing trade after years of estrangement. Greek-Turkish relations, which have been strained to the breaking point at least twice in the past decade over Cyprus, now are markedly improved...
...Persia, he announced in Baghdad in 1863 that he was the one foretold by the Bab. He was called Baha'u'llah, meaning, the "Glory of God"; most of the Bab's known as Baha'is. Further exile took Baha'u'llah to Constantinople, Adrianople, and finally to the Turkish penal colony of Akka (in present day Israel) where he remained a prisoner until his death...
...Great Harem was abandoned in 1909 when one of the last of the Ottoman sultans, Abdul Hamid, was exiled to Salonika with a few of his favorites; 370 concubines, old or second-rate by the Sultan's standards, and 127 eunuchs were set free. Now the Turkish Ministry of Culture is planning to make Topkapi Palace the focus of a "cultural revolution" featuring concerts, poetry recitals, ballet and re-enactments by the National Theater of the tragedy of Ibrahim...