Word: cypriotes
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...widening arms gap has caused the Turkish Cypriots to complain loudly to Ankara, which in turn has protested violently to the United Nations and anyone else who will listen. And of late the sound of gunfire is being heard once again in the island's isolated villages. Early last month shooting resumed at Famagusta. On Feb. 19 a Turkish Cypriot woodsman was killed near Kokkina. When there was a flurry of gunfire last week at Ambelikou, a tiny Turkish Cypriot village near the town of Lefka, Ankara responded with a roar of anger. A naval flotilla of 35 vessels...
...government of Cyprus' President, Archbishop Makarios, responded with counter threats. Makarios said there was no intention of attacking the Turkish Cypriot communities unless "we have to put these areas under full control so as to face the attack from the outside free from any internal distractions." Bellowed Grivas: "If the Turks dare to bombard Cyprus, the heaps of dead will not be Greek!" Grivas last week flew to Athens, and the rumor was that he was asking for a squadron of Greek jet fighters. In his absence, his National Guardsmen cleared a sizable area adjoining Nicosia airport, perhaps...
Would Khrushchev really grab the opportunity? Or was it just a matter of helping Makarios bluff the West into supporting the Greek Cypriot stand? The Soviet ambassador in Ankara went out of his way to reassure Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu. Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe...
...Anne-Marie of Denmark. Declaring that "my aim has always been and always will be enosis," that is, union of Cyprus with Greece, Makarios met with Premier George Papandreou, and both announced "complete accord" on Makarios' peace offering, though the Greek government was obviously concerned about the official Cypriot delegation currently in Moscow seeking aid from Nikita Khrushchev...
...Cyprus. Now food was pouring in from the Red Crescent and the U.N., and there was enough to eat even at Kokkina. But the nine tons of food sent by Makarios lay untouched beside the road, slowly spoiling in the hot sun. On one crate, an infuriated Turkish Cypriot had scrawled, "Don't play politics with our stomachs...