Word: cypriotes
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...supply; it lies along the best line of communication between Europe and Asia; it is in an area where there is no satellite buffer zone on the Soviet Union's border. For those reasons the U.S. State Department has been watching anxiously the dispute between Britain and Cypriot nationalists who want enosis (union) with Greece. Behind the scenes the U.S. has been urging both sides to reach an agreement...
...Makarios into custody. In his flowing black robes the archbishop was led into the airport, past the Greek Airlines plane waiting to take him to Greece, to another corner of the tarmac where an R.A.F. Hastings transport plane was parked. Already in custody beside the Hastings were three other Cypriot clerics, including Kyprianos Themistok-leous Kyriakides, Bishop of Kyrenia. At 4:30 p.m. the Hastings took off for Kenya, where the Cypriots were transferred to H.M. Frigate Loch Fada, which set out for the Seychelles Islands, a British crown colony in the Indian Ocean about 1,000 miles east...
Born: At Panayia, a Cypriot village, in 1913, the son of a peasant...
...vote in favor of union. He then sponsored a nationalist youth organization and called for a boycott of everything British. Carrying his propaganda into foreign fields, he visited Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Britain and the U.S., and last year went to the Bandung conference to seek Asian support for Cypriot self-determination. According to the British, he also organized "a systematic campaign of passive resistance" on Cyprus, which became, after arms and explosives were smuggled from Greece, a campaign of active sabotage and terrorism...
...Cypriot Cnurcn: The Church of Cyprus, to which 80% of the island's population belongs, is part of the Eastern Orthodox Church and has been autocephalic (self-ruled) since 431. Founded by St. Barnabas and St. Paul, it is in ecclesiastical communion with the other sees of Eastern Orthodox Churches, in dogma and liturgical tradition is close to the Roman Catholic Church because it preserves the faith as interpreted by the seven Ecumenical Councils of the first eight centuries (when the church was one and undivided). The Greek Orthodox Church is also in communion with the established Church...