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Ankara had told U.S. diplomats it thought the votes were in hand. Privately, senior Turkish officials blame Washington for not pushing dissident Iraqis who held a meeting in northern Iraq last week to provide a seat for Iraq's Turkoman minority in a newly established body to coordinate with the U.S. after a war with Iraq. "We had been insisting that the Turkomans be a constitutive part of that," a senior Turkish official said. In the end, though, the newly elected pro-Islamic legislators may have been looking mainly to their home districts. "A lot of these guys are right...
Other sources of old clothing at possibly less-than-vintage prices are the Harvard Square Bazaar. Saturdays at the corner of Church St. and Mass. Ave. and Dollar-a-Pound Clothing, open Saturdays till 1 p.m. "Antique" clothing from Japan is available at Turkoman (12 Arrow...
...more serious danger is that the country may slide into anarchy. Government forces have been barely able to suppress uprisings by rebellious Turkoman and Kurdish tribesmen in the northern provinces. Although petroleum production rose above 4 million bbl. a day last week, the oilfields around Ahwaz are still largely in the hands of dissident workers' councils, which have held numerous sit-ins to protest low wages and poor working conditions. Some 3.5 million Iranians (one-third of the work force) are unemployed; thousands of them milled around the ministry of labor in Tehran last week, demonstrating for jobs. Meanwhile...
...does have one main highway, but it merely connects the four main cities like a huge beltway. The country is bisected by the towering Hindu Kush Mountains, and there are few feeder roads. One result: there are still only loose connections between the dominant Pathans and the Uzbek, Hazara, Turkoman, Baluchi and nomadic tribes that make Afghanistan, as James A. Michener once described it, "one of the world's great cauldrons...
...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...