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There was no violence, but the Greek-Cypriot sense of betrayal could hardly have been deeper. Earlier in the week Archbishop Makarios, the prelate President of the constitutional Cyprus government, had approved a plan that would have created a "substantial" Turkish zone in northern Cyprus-a major concession-and would...
Right Timing. By the end of 1974, moreover, the British army had stalemated the Proves in Northern Ireland. "Things had been going wrong," one I.R.A. leader told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter, "and the timing was right for a cease-fire." The only chance that it would succeed was a significant...
The Martinique Compromise, reached by President Ford and French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, put the U.S. and France essentially "in parallel," meaning that each will try to support the other's approach while not abandoning its own. The U.S. went along with French wishes for two OPEC...
"I smell defeat," said pro-monarchist George Geogeoppulos, a retired army officer, after seeing the first returns. Defeat it was. By an unequivocal margin of 69.2%, Greece voted to abolish the monarchy that has ruled the country since 1833. At his home near London, exiled King Constantine, 34, disconsolately watched...
Lost Buffer. This sequence of events would have seemed unthinkable as recently as nine or ten months ago. Smith's concession-and the whole process of rapprochement that is underway in southern Africa-stems directly from the coup d'état in Lisbon last April and the subsequent...