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...pale red brick sometimes trimmed in yellow or faded blue, and ramshackle brick apartment buildings, of wooden street-corner stalls selling fruits, soft drinks and sweets, and of a few shops that feature more slogans than merchandise. The cafes are eternally packed with workers in shirtsleeves who sip Turkish coffee and pass the time in endless conversation in apparent defiance of the Communist Party's credo of hard work. It is a pedestrian's heaven; Albania is quite possibly the most earless country anywhere. The people are suspicious, curious, unsmiling-testimony to the effectiveness of Party Boss Hoxha...
...undermine confidence in the use of recently bought antiquities to describe past civilizations. In particular, the forgeries could lead to distrust of current archaeological concepts about ancient Anatolian culture. The Hacilar deposit was uncovered by British Archaeologist James Mellaart after he had been led to the spot by a Turkish farmer in 1956. Mellaart's find reversed the long-held belief that Anatolia, the area that is now Turkey, was only peripheral to the advanced Neolithic culture of Mesopotamia. So great was the wealth of the material found at Hacilar that some historians concluded that Anatolia, rather than Mesopotamia...
Mindful of the political risk the Turkish government was taking, the U.S. promised to increase its aid and technical assistance to help Turkey convert from poppy growing to other farm products. President Nixon made a special point of appearing before TV cameras with the Turkish Ambassador to Washington and praising Turkey's Premier Nihat Erim for his "courageous, statesmanlike action." Secretary of State William Rogers told TIME Correspondent William Mader: "The decision may create difficult domestic problems for Turkey, but it was taken in the interest of the international community. When we in the U.S. have so many teen...
...Turkish decision may well prove to be the most important step yet taken in controlling the import of heroin into the U.S. But its lasting effectiveness will depend on the ability of the U.S. to persuade the other major opium producers-notably Burma, Thailand, Laos and Afghanistan-to take similar action...
...visit last week, Izvestia emphasized Russia's ancient historic role in the Mediterranean, tracing its beginnings to a navigation treaty signed by the Principality of Kiev in the 10th century. The Russian presence in the Mediterranean was forcefully reaffirmed in 1770 when Admiral Orlov defeated the Turkish fleet at Tchesme. Later the Russians made a series of amphibious landings on the Ionian islands and even captured Corfu in 1799. "No, we are not guests in this sea," crowed Izvestia. "Many glorious victories of our people are connected with it." (Izvestia conveniently forgets, of course, that soon afterward the Russians...