Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British government -still seething at the recent murder of Lieut. Colonel Fredrick Collier as he watered his flowers at his bungalow near Limassol-was officially silent. But the nameless leader of the Turkish Cypriot underground movement, T.M.T., also agreed to call off all attacks "until further notice." Cyprus, which has seen 127 killed in gangland-type slayings in less than two months, breathed a sigh of relief...
...gardens of his Sussex home. The idea struck him that this might be the time for a personal visit to Athens and Ankara in the hope that one quick, bold move, at a time when both sides were weary and fearful, might finally clear up the bloody mess on Cyprus. For six weeks an apparent softening had been noticeable in the Greek position, a willingness to explore a settlement that would not insist on the future rights of enosis, i.e., the union of Cyprus with Greece. Turkey, too, was so absorbed by the revolutionary turmoil of her Arab neighbors that...
...decision, Macmillan was on his way, declaring: "The first thing we need to do is end all the horrible bloodshed and misery." Arriving at Athens' Ellinikon airport, Macmillan shook hands with Greece's handsome Prime Minister Constantine Karamanlis, who attributes his rapidly greying hair to the Cyprus question. At almost the same time, Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot flew to Athens to talk privately with bearded Archbishop Makarios, the exiled ethnarch of Cyprus...
Last week, while Chief Obodo languished in jail and his British counsel, Dingle Foot (brother of Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot), prepared his defense, one of his sidekicks, Chief Idaka Igboji, faced trial for murder, along with ten accomplices. A steady stream of witnesses -those who dared talk-told tales of death by drowning or burying alive. Finally there unrolled the story of the specific murder in question-that of a farmer named Nwakriko Abam. Abam, according to prosecution testimony, had been invited around for drinks by some of the chief's men. Suddenly his hosts seized...
Airlift to Amman. From nearby Cyprus, British transport planes airlifted 2,000 red-bereted troops of Britain's 16th parachute brigade, the "Red Devils," with 50 jets from the U.S. Sixth Fleet flying cover. Both Hussein and his people, who are as Arab as Nasser, appeared embarrassed to have the British "colonials" back: the Red Devils were confined behind barbed wire at the Amman airport. But not only was Hussein's throne shaking; the economy of Jordan was near collapse. Jordan's oil supplies were snapped off when the rebels seized Iraq, and queues lined Amman...