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...Boston-area students, including 200 from Harvard, have signed a petition urging the Turkish government to grant political asylum to two Russians charged with last week's hijacking of a Soviet airliner...
After the first Russian hijacking in 12 years, Branziskas Korejevo and his 18-year-old son face almost certain execution in the Soviet Union if not granted asylum by the Turkish government...
...Turkey and elsewhere, however, U.S. efforts run squarely into the private-profit motive. For example, a Turkish farmer can receive as much as $94 if he sells the harvest of an acre of poppies to smugglers. By contrast, he stands to earn only $4.83 an acre if he grows wheat...
...intelligence experts had urged the start of flights as early as ten days before the ceasefire, but disagreements over what aircraft to use and negotiations to secure the permission of allied governments in the area delayed them. British, Spanish and Turkish diplomats called to the State Department agreed that the U-2 would be a valuable pence-keeping device. But back in their capitals, the bureaucracies hemmed and hawed...
Born on a farm still run by one of his brothers, Jarring, 62, was called into the army on the eve of World War II. He was posted to the Swedish embassy in Ankara because of his knowledge of Turkish, which he had learned as a student at Sweden's Lund University. On a later assignment in Teheran, he spent off-duty hours hiking the countryside on language-studying trips. Once, when he had wandered across the Uzbekistan border by mistake, he reportedly spent a couple of nights in a Russian jail. One of his favorite relaxations has been...