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Many among the 20,000 people who heard Makarios speak last week were relatives of the 6,500 Greek Cypriots killed or missing during the coup and the subsequent Turkish invasion. They came expecting to hear Makarios denounce the now defunct Greek military junta and its allies in the Cypriot EOKA-B terrorist underground, whose reckless attempt to seize power had led to the island's division. They were not disappointed. "This is an ill-omened day and a mournful anniversary," said Makarios in his nasal twang. "When on the morning of that day the putschists struck...
Makarios' fiery denunciation of the junta and the EOKA-B may have provided emotional satisfaction for the Greek Cypriots. But he disappointed some of his audience by referring only obliquely to the sad facts of Cyprus' current condition, over which he has little control. One year after the coup attempt, there is virtually no prospect for a quick settlement of the Cyprus question-certainly none that would enable the 200,000 Greek-Cypriot refugees to return to their homes in the Turkish-held sector, which they fled during last year's war. Addressing a special session...
...Reality. Clerides represents the Greek Cypriots in the peace negotiations with Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktaş. that have been taking place in Vienna under the personal supervision of U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. A third phase of the talks is scheduled to start this week, but there is little hope of breaking the deadlock that has existed since they began last April. Clerides has proposed a multiregional federation, with Turkish Cypriots free to concentrate in their own separate areas scattered throughout the island. That would allow Greek Cypriots to return to their homes. The Turks insist, however, that...
...long-established Greek-American institutions have provided vital grass-roots support, stimulating the mail campaigns. One is the Greek Orthodox Church, headed in the U.S. by Archbishop lakovos, who set up 50 state committees after the Turkish invasion to raise money for Greek-Cypriot refugees (collections so far: $1.3 million) and to urge letters to Congressmen. Iakovos has personally pressed the issue with President Ford, Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy and Democratic Presidential Contenders Henry Jackson and Lloyd Bentsen. The other is AHEPA (American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association), the Greek-American fraternal order, which has 400 chapters and about...
...United Hellenic American Congress, it is headed by Andrew Athens, president of the Chicago-based Metron Steel Corp. Among this group's supporters have been New York Shipowners George Livanos, Pericles Callimanopulos and the Goulandris family. Most of the shipowners' contributions have been to aid Greek-Cypriot refugees. Such prominent Greek Americans as former San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, California investment Millionaire James Zissis and Mayor Lee Alexander of Syracuse, N. Y., have worked hard in the lobbying drive. An ad hoc group, the Hellenic Council of America, was founded last summer by Columbia University Economics Professor Phoebus...