Word: turkomans
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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...
...Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was making his last stand, which would end when the British could break through Rimini into the plain of the Po. Already he had pulled back the tough Nazis of the ist Parachute Division who had taken a beating before Rimini, and replaced them with Turkoman infantry of the 162nd Division...
...Italy the 162nd Turkoman Infantry -former Russian prisoners officered by Germans-was fighting to help save Kesselring's army. Almond-eyed, some with pigtails, they had belonged to crack Red Army Siberian divisions, now were obviously helping the Germans for a meal ticket...
...measures to protect its vital interests." In Teheran the arrival of Britain's words-via British Wireless News Agency-caused such official consternation that Persian newspapers were forbidden to print them and special couriers were rushed off to Reza Shah Pahlevi who was still in Mazanderan applauding superb Turkoman horseflesh and horsemanship...