Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly out of Naples aboard the Turkish ship Ankara, Eleanor Tatum saw a spectacular sight: Stromboli's volcano spouting off loud & fiery blasts. She had a brief stop at Athens on her way to Ankara for a visit with her brother, an engineer on the U.S. aid program for Turkey. After a flight back to Italy, she ran across a TIME story in need of a correspondent, covered it, happened by St. Peter's at the right moment to see the Pope at a beatification ceremony, then went on to Paris and London...
...Senegal Rau fretted: "[It] may add to the difficulties of an honorable settlement by creating yet another psychological hurdle." Turkey's Selim Sarper retorted: "[It] is only a beginning and a modest one." At debate's end, an overwhelming U.N. majority agreed with the Turkish spokesman, swiftly brushed protest and doubt aside. The Assembly approved the measure 47 to 0. The five Soviet bloc members refused to take part in the vote; eight other nations (Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sweden, Syria) abstained but indicated they would abide by the majority decision...
...Some Things Are Unavoidable." Senator George went on to a new tack. Those very things-the Greek-Turkish aid program, the European Recovery Program and North Atlantic alliance-all involved the possibility of provoking Russia to war. "We took ... a lot [of] calculated risks ... It doesn't seem to me that we are required to be certain . . . that Soviet Russia will not come...
...years later, Lafayette, who did not witness the episode himself, started the story that Washington called Lee a "damned poltroon" on this occasion. Most historians don't believe it. *But later drew on the tactical talents of another warrior of the Revolution, John Paul Jones. In the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-91, Jones was a rear admiral with Catherine's Black Sea fleet, fought in several engagements...
Word from King Zog. Since 1948, about 500 Albanians have escaped into Yugoslavia, many of whom have found haven in Titograd, the new provincial capital the Montenegrins are building on the ruins of Podgorica, which was razed by British bombers in World War II. Sipping thick Turkish coffee in a Titograd café last week, one of the refugees, a country storekeeper, said: "Police came to me and demanded 2,000,000 lek [$4,000]. I told him I didn't have it. They sent me to jail in Scutari. They chained my arms together underneath my knees...