Word: albanians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Michael was not a coward. He had been decorated in the Albanian campaign and remembered what the front in northern Greece was like. Now he had better things to do. He had inherited Greece's largest department store and had settled down in a luxurious apartment with his attractive wife and a young daughter. So, when he was called up a few months ago, he devised a plan. He located a former employee, now destitute and suffering from tuberculosis, supplied him witha forged identity card and paid him $1,500 to appear as Michael Chryssicopoulos before an army medical...
...United Nations observers found ample evidence that the guerrillas had received aid from Communist-dominated Countries. At several points well inside Albania the U.N. observers saw deep trenches, mortar emplacements, pillboxes, ammunition and food. Just inside Greek territory observers found Hungarian canned vegetables and fruit, Yugoslav canned meat and Albanian cigarettes. In the bushes on either side of the border were Bulgarian books on such subjects as "Thirty Years in the Soviet Army," "This Is How We Fought at Stalingrad" and "The American Plan for the Enslavement of Europe...
...original plan for Operation Coronet had been to prevent just this by slicing in between Markos and the Albanian border. The taking of Mount Ammouda, in the northern cornerstone of the Gramos redoubt, finally slid the knife in almost far enough to do the job. Reported TIME Correspondent Mary Barber...
...Greek army launched its big offensive-"Operation Coronet."* The Greeks threw six divisions and other units (70,000 men) against 8,000 rebels in Communist General Markos' Mount Grammos stronghold, near the Albanian border. One aim: to bang shut Markos' backstairs supply (and escape) route to Albania. Another: to mop up Mount Grammos...
Tolling Bell. In the last few weeks help of a more substantial (and, for the Greek army, more ominous) kind has been piling up on Greece's northwestern borders. Over the two main roads leading to villages on the Albanian side of the border, there has been a steady movement of convoys bringing up supplies. Nightly their lights bob and weave among the hills. Nightly mule trains wind across the rough hill tracks into Greece. Villages on the Albanian side of the border, for a depth of 30 miles, have been practically cleared of civilians...