Word: cyprus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through three bitter and often bloody years, Greek Cypriots had looked to the day when Archbishop Makarios, their spiritual and political leader, would return from exile. This week the day came, and Cyprus went wild with...
Britain's respected Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot (who previously guided both the Nigerians and Jamaicans on the road to independence) moved swiftly to reduce onerous restrictions, so that Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leaders would find it easier to sell the compromise plan to a doubting populace. Swallowing hard, the British proclaimed an amnesty that assures safe-conduct to Greece for Colonel George Grivas, wispy, 60-year-old leader of the Greek Cypriot terrorist underground organization EOKA, along "with anyone he may wish to take with him." The British also announced plans to cut their garrison from...
...Peace on Cyprus had one important side effect. Sixty Greek officers and men who last June had walked out in a huff from NATO's Southeastern European Command headquarters at Izmir, Turkey, quietly returned to their job. Friendly allies once again in the Eastern Mediterranean, the British, Turks and Greeks scheduled joint naval maneuvers in April...
When Governor Foot opened the gates this week for all 900 Greek Cypriot political prisoners held without trial in the British detention camps, thousands thronged Nicosia's streets to welcome them. But Cyprus still awaited the return of Makarios and of the Turkish Cypriot leaders to be convinced that independence was real and something to celebrate. On an island ringed with barbed wire and stalked by terror for four years, it was not easy to forget overnight...
...opened by his maneuver. Some worried that the rumbling dissidents might try to force him out. Should they succeed, the seat of Eastern Orthodox Church power could well shift to the patriarchy called "the third Vatican"-Moscow. Against such fears stood the new reconciliation between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus (see FOREIGN NEWS), which tended to downgrade "anti-Turkish" charges against Metropolitan James. One of the Cyprus reconcilers: James himself, who in London last week helped swing Archbishop Makarios behind the agreement, then prepared to move on to New York for his, formal installation...