Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cyprus the days were hot and the guns, for the moment, were cold. Turkish and Greek Cypriot sentries stood listlessly at the sandbagged strongpoints. Under watchful eyes of U.N. escorts, farmers drove their tractors through fields, bringing in the wheat harvest. At Nicosia's Ledra Palace Hotel, a new swimming pool was dedicated with a cocktail party. Not far away, a new Hilton was abuilding...
...Beach. Greece, limited by treaty to a 950-man contingent in Cyprus, has carried shipload after shipload of fresh troops and guns into the southern port of Limassol. Numbering more than 3,000 so far, they were quickly transported to camps of the Greek Cypriot national guard in the Troodos Mountains and elsewhere. Part of a Nicosia mental hospital is being used as a storage depot for newly arrived Greek arms and ammunition; four batteries of field artillery, quantities of light antiaircraft guns, antitank weapons and armored cars have recently turned up at a Greek encampment at Lefkoniko, near Famagusta...
...Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop-President Makarios insists that the new arrivals are for the most part Cypriot students returning from their schools in Athens-though it is not clear why the students arrive at night and head for the hills in trucks...
...Beatitude's Head. What the Turks fear is precisely what Greece threatens: to rip Cyprus from the troubled treaty that gives the 18% Turkish minority a veto over the majority Greek Cypriots and set it on the path toward enosis, or merger with Greece. No one is a blunter advocate of this course than wizened, fierce-mustached George Grivas, 66, the ascetic little soldier (5 ft. 4 in.) who led Cyprus' EOKA revolt against Britain in 1959 and spent five years in Greek exile. Dissatisfied with the policies of Makarios, whom he considers dishonest, not very clever...
...mind, Grivas has not. And yet, for a while at least, Grivas turned out to be a considerable influence for order. From the moment of his arrival, the bristling little fighter talked not only enosis but peace and fair play for the Turks, which, as an undisputed Greek-Cypriot hero, he felt strong enough to do. He also finally brought the Greek Cypriot "national guard," composed of anywhere from 15,000 to 40,000 men, under control, curbing the whims of impetuous lower commanders. A few days after his return, a U.N. official complained to Grivas that Greek Cypriot irregulars...