Word: cypriotes
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...Expressing the legitimate and irrepressible will of the Turkish Cypriot people . . . we hereby declare before the world and history the establishment of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus as an independent state...
German, Mexican, Polish and Norwegian sidewinders proliferated in the pros in the 1960s and '70s until Americans got the knack. In 1966 Cypriot Garo Yepremian's brother wrote to tell him about the land of milk and honey, and the soccer-style pioneer, Hungarian Pete Gogolak. Garo, a humble tiemaker, left home immediately to be a famous tie breaker. "The next thing I knew, I was a Detroit Lion," recalls Yepremian, who would serve four N.F.L. teams. "The first game I ever saw was in Baltimore against the Colts. I kicked off." Before the game, Yepremian...
...guerrillas were full of bravado as their moment of departure approached. Said a colonel: "We are withdrawing but we shall return, just as we shall return to Palestine." In a remarkably short time, the Palestinians, together with their packs and their AK-47 assault rifles, were loaded aboard a Cypriot ferryboat, the Sol Georgious. Shortly after 2 p.m., a full two hours ahead of schedule, they were on their way to Larnaca, Cyprus, as the bombastic farewell salute continued in the city they were leaving behind...
...midweek, French police announced that they had reconstructed a Suzuki motorbike on which the bomb presumably had been strapped; the owner, Alexander Panaryu, believed to be a Cypriot, was being sought for questioning. And by then, the unity and earnest soul searching that followed the tragedy had given way to confusion and recrimination...
...group seized the Saudi Arabian embassy in Khartoum and took six diplomats hostage. The terrorists surrendered three days later, but not before killing Noel and two other hostages. In 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies was shot to death during a Greek Cypriot attack on the American embassy in Nicosia. Earlier this year, Ambassador to Afghanistan Adolph Dubs was killed after being kidnaped in Kabul by right-wing Muslims...