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...Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...
Plucked from a conference table in Geneva, U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball last week flew to Athens and Ankara as a special envoy of President Johnson. His job: to damp down the latest Cyprus crisis caused by the sudden massing of Turkish troops at the seaport of Iskenderun...
...Athens, Ball conferred with Greece's Premier George Papandreou, then jetted on to Ankara where Turkey's Premier Ismet InÖnÜ was already in receipt of a blunt message from President Johnson asking him to cancel at once any decision to land Turkish troops on Cyprus. Ball warned both leaders that the U.S. is tired of having to prevent local wars at the last minute. The knocking of heads together had a seemingly pacific result. At week's end, Inonu accepted an invitation to come to Washington next week for talks with Johnson, and Papandreou...
...with the Greek government momentarily involved in a leadership crisis, President Makarios decided the time was ripe to "rebalance" the constitution. He submitted a 13-point amendment that effectively stripped the Turkish Cypriots of their safeguards. In a flash, Cyprus was up in arms. The Turkish Cypriots, backed by Ankara with its threats of invasion, cry for taksim-partition-or at least some form of cantonal federation. Greek Cypriot extremists, reviving the threat of enosis with Athens, have seriously suggested that all Turks be forcibly removed from the island and packed off to Turkey. Either solution appears unworkable. An outstanding...
...keep army units on Cyprus. His target was a 650-man Turkish force, whose presence-though hardly a major military threat-Makarios-finds unbearable. Promptly, Turkish Premier Ismet Inonii rejected Makarios' demand for the unit's removal, warned that if the Turkish force should be attacked, Ankara would consider it aggression...