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...Syrian President Assad may well consent to a renewal of the U.N. mandate. Meanwhile he has made it known that he wants something "con crete" in return-for example, a sign that Israel is prepared to return to a resumed Geneva conference. Syria, like its chief supporter and arms supplier, the Soviet Union, still sees Geneva talks as the proper vehicle for achieving a final settlement. As a heavyhanded way of underscoring Moscow's support at a ticklish moment, a small Soviet naval flotilla-a cruiser, a destroyer and a submarine-dropped anchor at Latakia as the U.N. mandate...
...site at Morphou is one of the important Bronze Age sites on the island because the Minoan pottery discovered there' established a link with an early civilization on Crete. If the pottery is lost the work at Morphou may have been set back four or five years, Vermeule said...
...Smyrna tumbled its terrorized Greek population into the sea; as on the island of Crete earlier and many years later in Cyprus, the people's hatred and suspicion flared and fighting between Turks and Greeks followed. George Seferis had been born at the beginning of the century in the Ionian village of Skala, where he lived until 1914. The ravage delayed his return for 36 years, and sometimes he called himself a seafarer, perpetually seeking roots. The similitude aptly echoed reality, for Seferis traveled and he wrote--offering manuscripts like a wayward sailor tosses corked "bottles...
...American cars were burned and American tourists abused, their cameras sometimes being snatched away and smashed on the ground. Athens' Constitution Square was the scene of occasionally violent anti-American demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed to have a sobering effect, however, and Caramanlis deplored "this sad event," promising to suppress acts of violence and anarchism in Greece itself with "merciless severity." To show that it was not blaming Greek-Cypriot authorities for the murder, Washington immediately dispatched William...
...also lose Greece as a forward-base area. Although Athens has not yet ordered NATO forces to leave Greece, as De Gaulle did in France, the alliance's officials fear that they may soon be barred from the large missile firing range and air-weapons training center on Crete. Of even greater importance are America's seven military bases and five communications sites that exist in Greece under a bilateral Athens-Washington treaty not directly related to NATO. Greece could break the treaty, though at week's end, it had given no indication that it would...