Word: akrotiri
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...Greek capital, Cypriot students climbed the walls of the British embassy compound and tossed fire bombs that burned automobiles and scorched the embassy. On Cyprus, meanwhile, one youth was accidentally killed by a military vehicle during a Greek Cypriot demonstration against the British at the entrance to the Akrotiri base area on the southern coast. The protests were aroused by a decision to move 10,000 Turkish refugees out of the British bases where most of them have been sheltered since they fled their homes during Cyprus' civil war last summer. The refugees are to be flown to Turkey...
...situation of some 10,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees in the southern, Greek-controlled part of the island is no better; they, too, are living under canvas this winter. In two desolate camps at the British base in Akrotiri, many are suffering from bronchial and rheumatic conditions, and there are cases of tuberculosis. But they at least have the consolation of knowing that, a few dozen miles to the north of their camps, there is Turkish armor with the capability of overrunning the entire island...
...Greeks, 6,000 Turks), and some 50 persons were killed or wounded in a series of fire fights for such strongpoints as a local brewery and the 12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...
...professional British soldiers and airmen estimated to be on the island, this made a sizable striking force for airborne action should a lunge toward Suez or Cairo be ordered. The British maintained a tight security shutdown, and it was impossible for correspondents to judge the degree of activity at Akrotiri air base. Middle East headquarters of the Royal Air Force, which sits on an arid, dusty plain on the southernmost peninsula of the island. But at the east coast port of Famagusta ten ships were quietly and efficiently unloaded, their cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French...