Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much as it distrusted the Turks, the Athens regime looked on the archbishop as the immediate enemy. The violently anti-Communist regime in Athens was suspicious of the archbishop's dealings with Moscow and the support he received from the 40,000-member Cypriot Communist Party. The junta reviled him as "Red," and worried that he would open Cyprus to the Soviet navy. In recent months, the anti-Makarios campaign was stepped up, and posters denouncing Makarios appeared on walls in Athens...
Though Athens denied that it contemplated any action against Makarios, there was little doubt on or off the island that a plot to depose the archbishop was planned by the secretive Ioannides, 52, chief of the Greek military police and strongman behind President Gizikis. Under the mounting demands from Makarios, Ioannides finally ordered the coup to take place Monday morning and, as the archbishop had feared, the Greek officers led the national guard against troops loyal to him. Using Soviet T-34 tanks that the archbishop had received from a 1964 aid pact with Russia, the guard attacked strategic locations...
When the fighting started, Makarios was in the presidential palace greeting a delegation of Greek Orthodox school children from Cairo. With the building being repeatedly hit by tank and mortar fire, the archbishop and three bodyguards ducked out a rear door, crossed a garden where no tanks or armored cars had yet appeared and commandeered a passing car. As the President of Cyprus lay on the floor, the party headed for Paphos, on the southwest coast, where Makarios was born and where the population was fanatically loyal...
...British base on the island.' Before he left, however, he made a brief broadcast over the Paphos radio station, which had rechristened itself "the Voice of Free Cyprus." The stronger Nicosia-based Cyprus Broadcasting Corp. was chortling: "Makarios is dead! Makarios is dead!" "Zo [I live]," said the archbishop. "Support me. Rise up and fight...
Sampson, in his single public appearance as President before the Turkish invasion, met foreign newsmen in Nicosia to charge Makarios with torturing Cypriots and display some of the archbishop's weapons and "victims...