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...control the U.S.-built planes it had used to bomb and strafe Cyprus. Greece, which had also withdrawn units from NATO, followed suit. Cyprus itself had a breather. Though still calling down curses on Turkey for its recent air strikes, Makarios relaxed somewhat the blockade thrown around the Turkish Cypriot communities. For the first time in two weeks, running water was restored to the huddled refugees in Ktima, and badly needed fuel was delivered to Turkish Cypriot bakeries in Nicosia...
...what happened in your own country during the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln and the majority, in trying to save the Union, forced the Southern secessionists into an unconditional surrender. At least one foreign power. Great Britain, supported the South. Today you journalists glibly lend your support to Turkish Cypriot secessionists. The American Government gives the impression that it has taken the role of the British of 1861. How the Muses must laugh at us hypocritical mortals...
Cyprus remains a powder keg surrounded by careless smokers. Chief among them is bearded, baffling Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, whose attempt to overrun the Turkish Cypriot beachhead at Kokkina brought swift retaliation from Turkey in the form of jet fighters. What Makarios could not win by force, he now tried to gain by blockade. Bowing to the ceasefire order of the U.N. Security Council, Makarios fixed a grip of iron around the 80 villages and the fortified quarters of the cities that house the 100,000 people of the Turkish Cypriot minority...
Expelled Greeks. As Makarios spoke, his Greek Cypriot forces were building up their strength in the Kokkina area for what the U.N. feared might be a second strike against the small Turkish Cypriot redoubt, where refugees from other villages huddled in caves. Such a step would certainly provoke another wave of Turkish retaliation from the mainland; in fact, many expect the Turks to attack again. In Thimayya's opinion, Turkey may "bomb Cyprus to save its people from starvation and make Makarios lift the blockade." In the Turkish capital Premier Ismet Inönü was desperately trying...
There could be no doubt that the man largely responsible for the deterioration was Archbishop Makarios, who had rejected reasonable U.S. proposals for settlement and boasted that "we will accept no compromise solution, no swapping of islands, no federation in Cyprus, no Turkish Cypriot 'cantonments.' ' In short, he demanded that the Turkish Cypriots lay down their arms and accede to majority rule by the Greek Cypriots. One Cypriot newspaper voiced the Greek mood by stating, "There must be an end to the drama." The only question, at week's end, was how bloody...