Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unable to agree on a compromise form of government that would acknowledge Greek power but protect Turkish rights. Since last summer the Greek and Turkish governments have both indicated willingness to help find a solution; both intend to participate in renewed talks scheduled for next month between the two Cypriot communities...
...Threat. The main stumbling block now is Makarios, who opposes any settlement that would diminish Greek Cypriot rule over the island -or, by extension, his own power -and who obviously has the Greek Cypriots strongly behind him. To budge the archbishop, therefore, Greek Premier George Papadopoulos two weeks ago sent him a three-point "recommendation" so sharp that the normally benign churchman could be heard through stout oaken doors fuming against "a humiliating, unacceptable ultimatum...
...quickly returned to New York City with a smirk and a prepared statement that the National Review's papers had been "composed ex nihilo" (out of nothing). In short, it was all a hoax, which had "sprung full-blown in my mind like Venus from the Cypriot seas." The authors' "most arduous challenge was to emulate bureaucratic prose...
...jailed for publishing "antinational propaganda." It is best to keep criticism obscure, as in the case of Eighteen Texts, a book recently published in Athens. Though Greece is not specifically mentioned, it is plainly the subject. The opening contribution, a poem by Nobel Prizewinner George Seferis, recounts an old Cypriot tale in which a bunch of cats (read colonels) wipe out an invasion of snakes (read Communists), only to wind up poisoned by snake venom. A second story alludes to a remark of Premier Papadopoulos that contemporary Greece is like a patient in a plaster cast, which will be removed...
Still Vulnerable. Suspicion immediately centered on several Greek extremist organizations that stubbornly refuse to accept any political solution for the divided island short of enosis (union with Greece). Makarios has firmly expressed his belief in independence for both the Greek Cypriot majority of 490,000 and the Turkish Cypriot minority of 110,000. Moreover, the military regime in Athens has formally abandoned the idea of enosis. Despite such opposition, extremists in recent months embarked on a new campaign of terrorism...