Word: cypriote
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...Cyprus the British issued two casualty lists. The first showed a total of 32 British and French officers and men killed -in the Port Said fighting. The second listed 32 Britons and Cypriots killed in the same period-on Cyprus. Never since the terrorist EOKA, the Greek Cypriot underground, started its campaign of violence 18 months ago had so much blood been shed in so short a time...
Republican and Democratic platforms denouncing colonialism obligate America to support Cypriot self-determination in the United Nations this year, Zenon G. Rossides, Cyprus delegate to the U.N.. said last night...
Rossides stated that the General Assembly's dismissal of the Cypriot question last year was due solely to Britain's promise that she would work the matter out privately with Cyprus. After this, however, Britain instituted military rule and acted to "stifle the voice of freedom" in Cyprus...
...Cypriot hailed the exiled Archbishop Makarios as "the most moderate representative" of Cypriot claims. He cited Britain's hypocrisy with regard to the Cypriot base, exclaiming, "You cannot defend freedom by denying freedom to the base you are going...
...yellow sandstone hidden among dusty eucalyptus trees, the nooses were hung, the traps set to deal out the stern punishment. With Koutsoftas and Panayides on the scaffold stood 23-year-old Stelios Mavrommatis, sentenced to death for shooting at two R.A.F. men (he did not hit them). Fearing a Cypriot demonstration, British troops set up radio posts and roadblocks to guard every approach to the prison. For most of the night there was only deathly quiet. Then, sometime before dawn, through the muffling thickness of the prison walls a macabre chant broke the silence. Some 170 political prisoners shouted...