Word: cypriotes
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...questioned the mercenaries on their return, a notorious F.N.L.A. mercenary known as "Colonel Callan" ordered 14 men to be shot after accusing them of "cowardice in the face of the enemy" when they asked to be sent home. "Callan," upon investigation, proved to be Costas Georgiou, 25, a Greek-Cypriot immigrant and former British paratrooper who had been cashiered from the service for robbing a post office. After being released from prison last year, Georgiou went to Angola, where he wound up in command of the F.N.L.A. mercenary forces...
...Soon after U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger P. Davies was assassinated in Nicosia in 1974, U.S. intelligence officials reported the killers' identity to high Cypriot officials, but the assassins are still serving in the Cypriot government security forces. Officials of both the CIA and the State Department denied the story, saying the U.S. does not know who killed Davies...
...opium smugglers who believed they had been betrayed to the Austrian police by the Turkish authorities. Two days after the Vienna murder, gunmen in Paris opened fire on a car belonging to the Turkish ambassador to France, Ismail Erez, 56, who died along with his chauffeur. A clandestine Greek Cypriot group, the EOKA-B, quickly sought credit for the murder in Vienna, in retaliation for the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. EOKA-B also said that it was responsible for the Paris murders, but its claim was disputed by the "Secret Armenian Army for the Liberation of Armenia." Thousands...
...seeking to restore meaningful dialogue between two historic good friends, for the sake of American interests, Greek security, and Cypriot independence. We should succeed because all three are complementary...
...That contrasted markedly with the chastened Greeks, who displayed only the flag of the island itself: a gold map of Cyprus encircled by an olive-branch garland on a white background. For the first time ever, the blue-and-white Greek banners that invariably headed any kind of Greek-Cypriot demonstration in the past were completely absent. The dream of enosis is dead...