Word: cypriotes
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...Carter Administration, like the Ford Administration, tends to blame Congress for overreacting to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. The invasion was provoked by years of Greek-Cypriot repression of the Turkish minority on the island and by an abortive Athens-instigated coup in Nicosia. Ethnic loyalties have unquestionably played an unhelpful part in U.S. policy. An influential circle of a dozen or so legislators of Greek heritage rammed through the 1974 embargo, which was lifted only last year. The same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since...
...would alternate as Cyprus' ceremonial chief of state every two years. Turks have also offered to surrender about 5% of the 1,375 sq. mi. occupied during the invasion, to reopen the airport at Nicosia (the island's capital) and to allow as many as 30,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to the Turkish-held city of Famagusta...
Both Premier Caramanlis and Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou have rejected the Turkish proposals as a form of de facto partition of the island. Their counterproposal demands more limited Turkish-Cypriot autonomy, a guaranteed return to their homes for the majority of Greek-Cypriot refugees, and withdrawal of 29,000 Turkish troops still on the island...
...trouble soon came as the Palestinians were conducting doorway negotiations with a Cypriot intermediary. The Egyptian commando Jeep suddenly rolled across the tarmac, guns blazing. The cockpit was a storm of flying glass. Puffs of insulation fell like hail...
...Cypriot bomb squad expert came forward; Melling took him back to the cockpit. Mohammed and Hussein stood there warily, pistols cocked, hand grenades unpinned...