Word: cypriote
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat seemed determined to begin forging a close personal relationship with his visitor. He just about memorized all available magazine and newspaper clippings about Vance and devoured a fat dossier, describing the American's personality and negotiating techniques, that had been prepared by Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, who dealt with Vance during the 1967 Cyprus negotiations. Restraining himself from the bear hugs with which he used to welcome Henry Kissinger, Sadat greeted Kissinger's successor as Secretary of State with warm handshakes and friendly grabs of his shoulders...
...Clifford mission is the latest step in a U.S.-sponsored drive for a settlement. First signs of a thaw between the island's heavily armed and mutually suspicious communities occurred four weeks ago, when Archbishop Makarios and Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denkta§ held an unexpectedly cordial meeting, their first in 13 years. With Washington's support, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim brought the two leaders together for a second time at a dinner meeting held in the U.N.-patrolled no man's land dividing the island...
Cyprus Prelate-President Archbishop Makarios considers 13 his lucky number. He was born on Aug. 13, 1913, and frequently chooses the 13th of the month for important meetings. Last week, for the first time in 13 years, Makarios held a meeting in Nicosia with his archrival, Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktas, to begin thrashing out the differences between Greek and Turkish Cypriots that have long engulfed the island in fratricide. Details of the talks were not disclosed, but.it seemed that Makarios was in luck. Later, he described the talks as "a breakthrough" and "a good step toward a settlement." Said...
...Rape. Chief Judge Ernesto Texeira da Silva, in declaring the sentences, coldly described the mercenaries as "dogs of war with bloodstained muzzles who left a trail of rape, murder and pillage across the face of our nation." Four men were condemned to death: Costas Georgiou, 25, the notorious Cypriot-born Briton who, as "Colonel Tony Callan," had ordered 13 of his own men shot; Andrew McKenzie, 25, Georgiou's second in command, who had helped execute the men; John Derek Barker, 35, another Briton; and Gearhart. The other nine, including two Americans, Gary Acker, 21, of Sacramento, Calif...
...violent persistence elsewhere around the world. Protestants and Roman Catholics in Ulster trade killings in a kind of perpetual motion of futility. Arabs and Israelis stand tensely at borders of territorial, cultural and religious dispute. In the Philippines, Moslem separatists are in rebellion against a Christian majority. Greek-Cypriot Orthodox Christians confront Turkish-Cypriot Moslems across a sullen truce line. Pakistan separated from India because Moslems feared the rule of a Hindu majority...