Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to bystanders, those were the words uttered by the shaken but uninjured leader of troubled Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, after his helicopter was riddled with bullets two weeks ago. His Beatitude was referring to Polycarpos Georgadjis, 39, an underground hero in the revolt against British rule, Makarios' Interior Minister until 1968, and more recently one of the archbishop's principal political rivals. Georgadjis (pronounced Yorkajis) was under intense surveillance after the assassination attempt; when he tried to leave the island, policemen ordered him off a Beirut-bound airliner as it prepared for takeoff. Last week, barely 48 hours...
...been Greek officers in Cyprus' National Guard, still bristling over the Papadopoulos affair. Or they might have been Cypriots of the extremist National Front, which has been waging a terrorist campaign to encourage enosis, or union with Greece, rather than the in dependence that both Georgadjis and the archbishop considered more feasible...
Georgadjis himself seemed to fear Makarios. After the assassination attempt against the archbishop, government sources leaked reports that fingerprints and a gun had been found that implicated Georgadjis' supporters. Police searched his apartment and confiscated two pistols. Georgadjis was fined $384 for having concealed weapons. After he was removed from his plane and forced to remain on the island, Georgadjis warned: "Anything can happen now. To Makarios, people are like lemons: when they are squeezed dry, he throws them away...
...When Archbishop Makarios, the bearded political and religious leader of Cyprus, visited Athens last January, Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos warned him: "Your Beatitude, you should be careful. Your safety is in danger." Makarios nodded knowingly; only recently, he confided, a foreign diplomat had told him that an assassination attempt was to be made when he returned to his troubled island. "And what did you do?" asked Papadopoulos. "I didn't pay attention," Makarios replied...
...Polycarpos Georgadjes, one of Makarios' political opponents, and announced that they had found two pistols. Despite Georgadjes' claim that they had been gifts from Makarios in friendlier days, he was fined $384 for illegal possession. Meanwhile, Makarios' attempted assassins apparently remained on the loose, leaving the archbishop-and his volatile land-as vulnerable to danger as ever...