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Clerides is resigned to a bizonal arrangement, but will participate in a session of talks slated for July only if Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cypriot leader, remains open to his ideas for a central government. The Greek community aims to avert the possibility of an eventual union between their counterparts' federal state and the Turkish mainland by granting substantial power to the central government...
...Soviet Union, to a gradual shift in the country's foreign policy toward a more neutral stance. As Parliamentary Deputy Haluk Ulman put it, "If the U.S. decides that it can live without Turkey, then Turkey must learn to live without the Western world." Turkish-Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, moreover, warned that the aid cutoff might provoke the proclamation of an independent Turkish-Cypriot state...
...tension high. The latest round of talks in the fruitless 21-month negotiations to find a formula for coexistence between the is land's 490,000 Greeks and 110,000 Turks were adjourned suddenly. "We would have been talking under the threat of guns," explained Turkish Leader Rauf Denktash. Moreover, Makarios, who on one pretext or another has delayed parliamentary elections for five years, may seize upon the tension as an excuse for canceling the June balloting...
...forced to support its 20,000 unemployed with annual handouts of $20 million from the Turkish government. Even more serious, however, is the fact that the communities are drawing farther apart in a process described as "creeping partition"-and the renewed terrorism may accelerate the process. Says Rauf Denktash, president of the Turkish Cypriot Communal Chamber: "Cypriots of my generation at least knew each other. A new generation is growing up in different school systems, without any friends on the other side...
...Cyprus into warring camps. Sniping incidents declined, and the two ethnic groups even began to mix with one another on a relatively friendly, if cautious, basis. Earlier this month, as a gesture of good will, the Greek Cypriot government of Archbishop Makarios released from prison Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash, who had been captured after he secretly smuggled himself into Cyprus...