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Local Greek and Cypriot students and faculty members of the Committee for Relief and the Restoration of Democracy in Cyprus have collected over 100 pints of blood since Tuesday to aid Greek Cypriot victims of this week's fighting in Cyprus...
UNTIL MONDAY, arguments that tyranny and repression by the military junta in Greece were matters for Greeks to resolve internally provided convenient, if feeble, justifications for continued American aid to Greece. But even these lame excuses were brutally destroyed this week when the popularly-elected Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios was overthrown in a coup directed by the Athens dictatorship and executed by the 650 Greek officers who command the Cyprus National Guard...
...violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence and democracy of Cyprus...
...advance that the Greek junta intended to purge Makarios's government and set up its own puppet regime. Since November, when the Greek military ousted President George Papodopoulos, the State Department has received continued warnings of the junta's intentions. This spring, Makarios accused the Greek officers of the Cypriot National Guard of supplying arms and inspiration to a group of Cypriot terrorists fighting for union with Greece. Two weeks ago, he ordered the removal of all Greek officers from Cyprus because of "irrefutable" evidence that the military rulers in Athens were planning to murder him and overthrow his government...
Died. General George Grivas, 75, head of the successful underground Cypriot revolt against the British in the late 1950s and of a guerrilla movement fighting for the union of Cyprus and Greece (see THE WORLD...