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There was only a brief ceremony for the 30 students receiving their college degrees in a drab, grey building behind the Turkish Parliament in Ankara. Barely a handful of people were present. The students had no caps and gowns; nor were their diplomas engraved in traditional fashion-just plain typed certificates. But if the surroundings were drab last week, the occasion was not. It was the first graduation of the Middle East Technical University, organized to overcome the lag in technical education in the underdeveloped Middle East, and to do it in a hurry. Says the school's American...
Unequivocal Disavowal. Last week General Gursel staged a public ceremony to reassure the doubters. Before an overflow audience of Turkish citizens, foreign diplomatic and press representatives in the flag-decked Parliamentary chamber, he summoned all 38 members of the junta to a public oath-taking. "As your leader, I will take the oath first," said Gursel. One by one, in alphabetical order, the officers swore "that I will not depart from the aim of organizing a democratic republic according to the constitution, and from turning over the government to an elected parliament...
...ceremony was broadcast over a nationwide radio hookup. Afterward. Gursel declared: "History has never witnessed an event like this. I cannot predict how history will evaluate it. What I do know is that the Turkish nation in the past has created great things in the field of governing and has now displayed to the world an example of reform...
...were at home, and since the Montenegrin army had no stretcher bearers, the casualties often simply crawled off to die. The troops were spectacularly brave, attacking with gusto at point-blank range and accepting decimation with stoicism bordering on indifference. Before one attack, volunteers rushed forward to blow the Turkish wire with bombs. Gary saw them advance, old men who had volunteered because they felt that it did not matter if they were killed. Half of them were, but the survivors threw their caps up in the air to signal that the wire was broken...
...Soldiers Understand. The Montenegrins finally won, and Gary witnessed the surrender. Piece by piece the siege artillery was handed over by a crying Turkish officer who bent down and kissed each gun. The hardy mountaineers set about picking up their lives, and Gary set out for home. In his notes, he has almost nothing to say about the cause or cure of war; he neither reviles nor glories in it. Already the future novelist was simply recording human experience, usually with a painter's touch that gives the Memoir its most notable quality. Gary's own drawings illustrate...