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Turkish Passions. The Turkish Parliament openly fretted when Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit, apparently seek ing a peaceful solution, flew off to Lon don for conferences with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, as well as the U.S. State Department's Sisco. Turks feared that Ecevit might buckle once again, as Turkey has twice done in the past decade, rather than go to war over Cyprus. Instead, Ecevit took a hard line...
Given such fundamental Imbalances in national power and purpose, the wonder is that the sea conference is be ing held at all. But the major powers know that the days when they could partition territory among themselves (as they did last century in Africa) are gone; they are too entangled in a web of eco nomic and political agree ments for that, and too dependent on developing nations for raw materials...
...ing Without Clothes is a good way to be, especially during these God-forsaken Cambridge summers, and it's also the name of a very fine exhibition of contemporary photos at MIT's Hayden Gallery...
...Florida Teaching Hospital at Gainesville. They found that 177, or about 3%, of the admissions were due to drug-induced or exacerbated illnesses, many of them serious. Fifty of the illnesses were considered "moderate" by hospital authorities; 116, or nearly two-thirds, were severe or potentially life-threaten ing. Eleven proved fatal. Interaction between drugs (prescribed in some cases by different physicians) accounted for 56 of the admissions. But 121 were caused by a single drug. Aspirin alone accounted...
...well under half of today's 11 ½%-11¾% range. Only about a year ago, when major banks raised the prime by half a percentage point, to 6¾%. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns summoned the country's top bankers to Washington for a stern bawl-ing-out and succeeded in getting the increase partially rolled back...