Word: capitulationism
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But many unsettling details mottle Caramanlis's political career. In 1959, he affirmed a characteristic policy of capitulation by concluding the Zurich agreement establishing conditional independence for Cyprus, to the disadvantage of the ethnic Greeks--an agreement that contributed to the current Cyprus tragedy. During his eight years in power...
U.S. officials believe that the time for concerted action against OPEC may be approaching, in part because there is currently a surplus of 1.5 million bbl. of oil per day?or 2.7% of the total used ?on the world market. Reasons: the fourfold increase in the price of oil...
He tried for the presidency once more in 1968, but again Nixon had pocketed the votes of too many delegates, and his rebuff of Goldwater still rankled with many. Beyond that, Rockefeller had been nationally wounded by a fellow liberal Republican, Mayor Lindsay. During the winter, New York City sanitation...
Washington's second error was to appear to accept Makarios' successor, Terrorist Nikos Sampson. With his long record of violence against Turkish Cypriots, Sampson was clearly unacceptable to them and to Ankara. "In the context of Sampson," says Britain's former Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home...
Wells's imagination soared to unequaled heights in the early parts of the twentieth century. But its unfirm grasp of reality and its reliance on magical science--which at times predicted many real things to come--was too shaky. It had to fall. The MacKenzies have captured much of that...