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...British army called it "Operation Lucky Alphonso," but few recent military operations have been less fortunate. In the first place, the 5,000 crack troops combing out the 65 square miles of Cyprus' rugged Troodos Mountains were not quite sure what they were looking for. Intelligence officers had a dog-eared snapshot of a square-shouldered man wearing a beret and with a .45 automatic slung from his Sam Browne belt, and they said it was the likeness of 58-year-old Greek Colonel George Grivas. But was this actually the legendary Dighenis, the man who fought both Nazis...
Sentiments & Sacrifice. Operation Lucky Alphonso was conceived as a means of strengthening the British hand in a resumption of negotiations with the Cypriot nationalists. The tip-off that the Cypriots were ready to talk had come in a letter from Archbishop Makarios to British Labor M.P. Francis Noel-Baker. Speaking of Cyprus Governor Sir John Harding's "pointless decision to exile me," Makarios wrote: "I shall bear no grudge on account of this action. It is possible that the talks will be resumed at the point where they were broken off. But in that case, why the sacrifice...
...episode in a campaign dubbed Operation Lucky Alphonso, involving 5,000 British troops in the biggest military undertaking since Malaya. Object of the sweep: to catch George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer who reportedly masterminds the E.O.K.A. terrorist underground from a mountain hideout. By week's end the marines had narrowed the squeeze to a last four square miles in the Troodos...
...conceivably the best undergraduate story published so far this fall, Gerald Gillespie competently unravels the mysterious adventures of "the mighty and fabulous Alphonso Fitzpatrick." The Kafkacsque plight of the hero is overcome with fancy and humor...
Died. Robert Alphonso Taft, 63, majority leader of the U.S. Senate since last January, Senator from Ohio since 1939, of malignant tumors; in Manhattan (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...