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...Cyprus itself last week there were the usual minor altercations. Shots were exchanged across the Green Line, dividing Nicosia into Greek and Turkish quarters, and a Greek Cypriot was wounded at Ambelikou, a small village near Lefka whose Turkish inhabitants are surrounded by Greek Cypriots. The week's most intriguing development was the mystery of the missile ship. After the island was hit by a retaliatory Turkish air raid last August, Makarios ordered ground-to-air missiles from Russia, and the weapons were shipped to Egypt to await transshipment. Greek Cypriot missile crews, officered by "volunteers" from the Greek...
...does the gunfire at Ambelikou signal new danger in an old confrontation? (See THE WORLD...
...will listen. And of late the sound of gunfire is being heard once again in the island's isolated villages. Early last month shooting resumed at Famagusta. On Feb. 19 a Turkish Cypriot woodsman was killed near Kokkina. When there was a flurry of gunfire last week at Ambelikou, a tiny Turkish Cypriot village near the town of Lefka, Ankara responded with a roar of anger. A naval flotilla of 35 vessels normally based at Izmir put to sea bound for Iskenderun, just 100 miles from Cyprus. As Turkish Foreign Minister Hasan Ishik postponed his scheduled visit to Pakistan...
Double Denouncing. The three-day gun fight at Ambelikou last week dramatized a new Greek Cypriot tactic. It began when the Turkish Cypriot villagers used a bulldozer to widen a rude hill path leading to Lefka, which is also Turkish-controlled. Any attempt to improve road communications or to move villagers to larger Turkish towns is met with force. The Makarios government argues that a concentration of the island's minority would play into Turkey's hands by giving Ankara a beachhead for invasion. The Turks protest that the Greeks want to keep Turkish Cypriots well scattered...
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