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...previous notions about Late Neolithic man. In Hacilar 7,500 years ago, women wore jewelry, artists produced the first known realistic sculptures of the human figure, kids played at marbles and men at asik, a game resembling jacks but using the knucklebones of cattle, which is still a favorite Turkish pastime-more than 200 generations later...
...belly boites, with their papier-mâché palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families. Customers often bring their children; between performances, enthusiastic young men from the audience will take the floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka...
...Melting Pot. All over the country, belly clubs have never been bigger, especially in Detroit, Boston and Chicago, and even in small towns; one of the best dancers, a Turkish girl named Semra, works at a roadhouse outside Bristol, Conn. The girls are kept booked and moving by several agents, notably voluble, black-bearded Murat Somay, a Manhattan Turk who is the Sol Hurok of the central abdomen. He can offer nine Turkish girls, plans to import at least 15 more. But a great many of the dancers are more or less native. Sometimes they get their initial experience...
...fanatical Colonel Alpaslan Turkes. These young zealots talked of setting up a thought-control office and remaking the country along authoritarian lines. They were also responsible for bringing charges of adultery and other smear-type cases against Menderes and the other fallen Democratic leaders on the ground that the Turkish peasants understood immorality but would never understand what a crime against the constitution was. When they tried to push through a draft law last November to put off elections for three years, Gursel rounded up all 14 and packed them off as "advisers" to embassies abroad. "Some of them should...
General Gursel had been struck at a bad time. A month ago he had expelled 14 young junta officers who wanted to postpone elections and the return of democratic government until the army had enforced drastic authoritarian reforms on virtually every phase of Turkish life. The mass trial of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and 520 other Turkish ex-leaders, after arousing international uneasiness about Turkey's juridical system with arguments about shaggy dogs and mistresses, was at last beginning to produce serious evidence of the old regime's abuse of power...