Word: cypriotes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beirut's red-bereted "Squad 16," the Americans boarded Pan American and Middle East Airlines charter jets, soon were winging for Rome, Athens, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Ankara, and Nicosia on Cyprus. Others made it aboard the American Export Isbrandtsen freighter Exilona for a leisurely, sun-drenched cruise to the Cypriot port of Famagusta...
...British have always been stuffy about race, but the stuffiness has grown with the influx in recent years of some 625,000 immigrants. Whether a man is a blue-black African, a coffee-colored Jamaican, an Aryan Pakistani or even a Cypriot of Greek descent, he is considered "colored" in Britain - and almost invariably discriminated against. Two years ago Parliament passed a halfhearted race-relations act forbidding discrimination in hotels, restaurants, theaters and public transport, but the law is so impossible to enforce that no one has yet been convicted of breaking it. Moreover, it makes no attempt...
...National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help ward off any possible invasion by Turkey. Ever since then, Makarios has been appealing to Athens to curtail Grivas' powers, and to put the local Cypriot National Guard back under Cypriot control...
...would cost the government the party's eight votes, which would knock Stephanopoulos right out of power. Through it all, Makarios refused to retreat. "Whether you like it or not," he told Stephanopoulos, "I plan to go ahead and pass legislation unilaterally to bring the National Guard under Cypriot government orders...
Cyprus has been in a state of crisis since December 1963, when fighting broke out between the ethnic Greek and Turkish population over Greek Cypriot efforts to obtain greater political control through constitutional revision. U.N. forces have been in Cyprus since March...