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Feb. 29 Turkish Goodbye to American Bazaars. On Istanbul's waterfront, and at other busy sites in Istanbul and in Ankara, until Turkish authorities just days ago began enforcement of new law banning public display or sale of luxury items or products of foreign origin, notorious so-called American Bazaars were dawn to dusk outlets for a sultan's ransom of astronomically-inflated products, not manufactured locally, from neckties for sale at prices worth 30 dollars each to jars of Maxwell House coffee at 20 dollars the item. A made-in-U.S.A. coorkcrew went for the equivalent of.50, famous-brand cornflakes, .00 the box

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