Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BECKET. The tragedy of St. Thomas of Canterbury, one of the great dramatic themes of the Middle Ages, is cleverly treated in this cinema adaptation of the play by Jean Anouilh. Richard Burton as the Archbishop at times seems uncertain how to seem uncertain as he struggles with his conscience, but Peter O'Toole is often fascinating as the king. If the film lacks style, it certainly has manner, the grand manner that makes a merely vivid picture seem in sections a remarkable...
Under the London agreement of 1959, both Turkey and Greece have the right to station small detachments of their regular troops on the territory of Cyprus. Early this month, Turkey notified the Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios that it intended to rotate home 335 Turkish soldiers whose one-and two-year terms were up and to replace them in Cyprus by an equal number. Such exchanges had taken place before without incident. When the Cypriot government requested a postponement, Turkey agreed to a delay of one week...
...week's end, Turkey grudgingly gave its consent to a Greek request that the troop rotation be postponed. Archbishop Makarios flew blithely off to Alexandria to confer with an old friend and ally, Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. His reported mission: to secure Nasser's permission for Greek and Russian fighter planes to use Egyptian bases in the event of a Turkish invasion of Cyprus...
...because many holders eventually "convert the bonds into donations." Others insist on more businesslike borrowing from banks or from such church-sponsored agencies as the $100 million American Baptist Extension Corp. Roman Catholics favor blunt fund-raising campaigns to finance major building programs. In the fall of 1962, Archbishop Joseph T. McGucken began a $15,500,000 campaign, partly to pay for a new cathedral in San Francisco to replace the one that burned. He had no trouble raising the amount in seven months, with some donations of as much...
Heeding a piercing and highly public appeal for help from Archbishop Makarios, Nikita Khrushchev duly pledged Russian aid should anyone (read Turkey) invade Cyprus. But Khrushchev also called for moderation and warned Makarios to lift his economic blockade of the Turkish Cypriots. Still, even the remote prospect of direct Russian intervention seemed a little chilling to all sides...