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Before last summer's short but savage war between invading Turks and the outgunned Greek Cypriot National Guard, Cyprus was an oasis of sunny prosperity in the turbulent eastern Mediterranean. Nearly six months after the end of the fighting, Cyprus today is a wrecked dream-its airports still closed, its economy shattered, one-third of its people refugees in their own land. Greek Cypriot Leader Glafkos derides and his Turkish counterpart, Rauf Denktaş, had hoped to resume their interrupted peace talks during Christmas week but were unable to agree on a basis for further negotiations. TIME Correspondent Erik...
...situation of some 10,000 Turkish Cypriot refugees in the southern, Greek-controlled part of the island is no better; they, too, are living under canvas this winter. In two desolate camps at the British base in Akrotiri, many are suffering from bronchial and rheumatic conditions, and there are cases of tuberculosis. But they at least have the consolation of knowing that, a few dozen miles to the north of their camps, there is Turkish armor with the capability of overrunning the entire island...
Turkey is also opposed to Makarios' return. Last week Ankara placed its 35,000 troops on the island on maximum alert, and warned that if there were renewed fighting among Greek Cypriots, it would intervene to protect the 30,000 Turkish Cypriots living in the Greek-controlled part of the island. As tensions mounted, a Cypriot government spokesman charged that the Ankara government was looking for a pretext to launch a fresh military operation-the dreaded "third round" that Greeks fear would enable Turkey to overrun the rest of the island (it now controls 40% of the territory...
Such a settlement will almost certainly involve some kind of federation between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities, perhaps in the form of a union of Swiss-style cantons. Before returning home last week, Makarios conferred in Athens for two days with Greek Premier Constantino Caramanlis and Glafkos Clerides, who has been Acting Cypriot President in his absence. The three leaders reportedly agreed in principle that conditions for a federation should include 1) the right of the 180,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to their homes in Turkish-occupied parts of the island; 2) Turkish withdrawal to a territorial...
...confirmation that U.S. military aid to Ankara jumped to $40.5 million following the Turkish invasion, an increase of more than $13 million over the previous quarter. The State Department claimed that the increase was due to delivery of four F-4 fighters that had been ordered in 1972. Greek Cypriot newspaper reaction was bitter. Editorialized the right-wing Agon, official newspaper of Clerides' Unified Party: "Our conclusion can only be one: that if Turkey carries out its threat [for renewed fighting], the real culprits will not be in Ankara but in Washington...