Word: turkomans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Date Town. Other valiant adventurers in the book include Hungarian-born Arminius Vambery, who disguised himself as a dervish in 1863 and traveled for ten months through Central Asia; American Januarius MacGahan, the special correspondent of the New York Herald, who dodged both Cossacks and Turkoman cavalry in his daring 1873 coverage of the Russian conquest of Khiva; Irishman Edmund O'Donovan, representing the London Daily News, who was simultaneously held prisoner and elected prince by the Tekke tribesmen of desolate Merv. Said O'Donovan: "It is well worth while to have lived among the Tekkes to know...
Singh & Co. had succeeded in excluding or scaring off irrepressibly anti-Communist Asians. The Philippines refused to send a delegation, no South Koreans were invited. Two Formosans who asked for admission as observers were turned down, as were two Turkoman refugees from the U.S.S.R. But all the Communist nations of Asia were represented in force. So, too, was the Soviet Union, which had dusted off for the occasion its claim to be as much an Asian as a European power...
...never arrived in Teheran. The Shah's birthday party was called off, and 25 Iranian-piloted Thunderbolts, assisted by eight U.S. Air Force planes, began a methodical sweep over the desolate Turkoman steppe. On the fifth day of searching, three peasants saw vultures swooping over a hidden ravine in the Elburz Mountains, only 42 miles from Teheran. The peasants went to the spot and there found the bodies of the prince and his two companions...