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...months the 8,000 or so troops that they have illegally infiltrated into Cyprus during the past seven years, leaving only the 950 that they are entitled to station there under the island's 1960 independence accords. They also agreed to disband the 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard, to pay damages to the Turkish Cypriot villagers of Ayios Theodores and Kophinou for the Nov. 15 attack by Greek General George Grivas and his Guards men, and to keep Old Hawk Grivas off the island. For their part, the Turks agreed to withdraw from the island...
Makarios objected to the disbanding of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, his main instrument of power, so long as the Turks were allowed to keep 650 men stationed on Cyprus and the Greeks 950. If the Guard must go, maintained Makarios, so must the foreign troops. He also felt that the sovereignty of Cyprus would be jeopardized by any broadening of U.N. jurisdiction on the island beyond the U.N.'s present duty to maintain the peace with 4,000 troops...
Cyprus has long been a stinging nettle in Turkish-Greek relations. In the savage fighting that broke out between the island's 480,000 Greek and 120,000 Turkish Cypriots in December 1963, the two countries nearly came to blows, and Turkey actually bombed and strafed Greek Cypriot positions. In recent months, however, a measure of peace and order finally seemed to descend on the island where Aphrodite, the goddess of love, first set her foot on land. Down came many of the roadblocks that had divided Cyprus into warring camps. Sniping incidents declined, and the two ethnic groups...
Provocative Hawk. This calm was rudely shattered two weeks ago by what began as a routine police action by Greek Cypriots. Fearing that Turkish villages were becoming enclaves through which free passage would eventually be denied, Archbishop Makarios decided to reassert his government's authority by ordering a resumption of patrols by Greek Cypriot police in two predominantly Turkish villages about 30 miles south of Nicosia. Unfortunately, the direction of the operation was entrusted to the wrong man: Lieut. General George Grivas. While Makarios seems to favor an independent Cyprus with friendly relations with Greece, Grivas, the island...
...sacking the civilian Premier, Constantine Kollias, whom the junta reluctantly installed at the bidding of young King Constantine. Next would come the creation of an all-military Cabinet, with Papadopoulos himself as Premier. As far as Papadopoulos is concerned, the post is already his. In a recent chat with Cypriot President Makarios, he announced bluntly: "I am the boss in Greece...