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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...
Beyond that Moscow had a practical reason for wanting anti-Soviet Greeks out of power on Cyprus. The island is the key Middle East intelligence center for the Kremlin (as it is for the U.S.). Russia's Nicosia embassy is larger than any of its embassies in Cairo, Teheran and Beirut. A sophisticated communications center links the Cyprus embassy with Moscow and the Soviet Mediterranean fleet as well as with two Russian spy ships that monitor radio traffic off the Israeli coast. The entire operation would almost certainly cease if Sampson remained President of Cyprus...
...assignments. The sketchy economic agreements that President Nixon struck during his own tour last month had to be translated into workable programs and, even more important, avenues had to be explored for easing the impact of higher Arab oil prices. The trip took Simon from the French Riviera to Cairo, Jerusalem and Jidda; he ran into somewhat less trouble in Arabia than on the pleasant beaches of the Riviera...
...Palestine. He instigated anti-Zionist riots, wiped out Arab opponents, and was driven into exile by the British. After years of cloak-and-daggery in various Arab lands, he served Adolf Hitler by broadcasting anti-Allied propaganda to the Moslem world from Berlin. He later lived regally in Cairo and Beirut, ever plotting against the Jewish state...
Even so-called moderate Palestinian organizations are feeling the backlash of frustration. The Nahariya raid was carried out by members of Yasser Arafat's Fatah, the largest and lately the most reasonable fedayeen group. At a Cairo meeting last month of the Palestine National Council-a kind of parliament in exile-Arafat had to modify his views somewhat to please fedayeen extremists...