Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only solution to the Cypriot dilemma is the repatriation of the 94,000 Turkish Cypriots to the mainland of Anatolia. THOMAS SPELIOS Elmhurst...
Finland's Ambassador to Sweden, Tuomioja (pronounced Twoo-mee-o-ya) has previously done U.N. jobs as an administrator and trouble-shooter in Laos, one of the few places in the world that can match the complexity of Cypriot politics...
Nasty Brawl. Unfortunately, the Van Doos will not become fully operational until the U.N. "terms of reference" are hammered out and other national troop contingents arrive. So when trouble exploded last week at the Turkish Cypriot village of Ghaziveran on the north coast, it was the British who had again to march into the breach. Ghaziveran was a particularly nasty little brawl: the villagers, fearing a Greek Cypriot attack, had built roadblocks outside of town. Hundreds of Greek Cypriot "regulars" surrounded them and demanded removal of the roadblocks. When the villagers obeyed, the Greeks demanded the surrender of all arms...
...Friday, Rossides excitedly recited an hour-long litany of alleged Turkish crimes. Turkey's veteran Ambassador Orhan Eralp made a five-minute rebuttal. Refusing to "rehash" the past, Eralp described the Turkish ultimatum as a "note of warning" that called for Greek Cypriot observance of "human rights." He concluded: "The time for words has passed. Let us proceed to action...
...week's end Greece and Turkey were no longer eyeball to eyeball. But the truce was still an uneasy one subject to the whims of fanatic Cypriot gunmen of both Greek and Turkish persuasion. The crisis offered a fertile ground for big-power meddling. France's President Charles de Gaulle backed the Greek Cypriot position, which made him a hero to the Greeks, while U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was being burned in effigy in Athens. The Soviet Union was also happily taking sides in a quarrel between NATO partners, and gave down-the-line support to the government...