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Under the settlement worked out by U.S. Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance, last week's withdrawals will be followed by others, until Greece's 9,000-man force on the island is reduced to only 950, the number Greece is legally entitled to station there under Cyprus' independence agreements. In reciprocation, the Turks called off their invasion preparations against Cyprus and Greece and agreed to withdraw the 1,500 or so troops that they infiltrated into Cyprus in excess of their 650-man legal allotment. Shrewdly calculating that the Greek rulers lacked the support both at home...
Archbishop Makarios, the bearded President of Cyprus, is a man with a strong sense of the dramatic. Last week, after Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance had skillfully tied the strings on a settlement between the Turks and Greeks that averted the threat of war over the island, Makarios suddenly balked and threatened to undo the whole package...
Under Vance's pleading, Demirel agreed to delay Turkish military measures until the U.S. envoy had an opportunity to sound out the Greek leaders. What Vance learned in Athens obviously pleased the Turks, who announced that they and the Greeks would accept the good office of Italy's Manlio Brosio, the NATO Secretary-General, as mediator in the dispute. It was a hopeful development, but by no means a permanent one. The situation remained so tense that a handful of men with submachine guns on Cyprus could wipe out the diplomatic achievements in a matter of seconds...
...ambassadors), 16 pro-nuncios (ambassadors of slightly lower rank) and three internuncios (ministers plenipotentiary). The office of apostolic delegate was devised to provide the Vatican with representation in countries, such as the U.S., with which it does not have diplomatic relations. Technically, the apostolic delegate is merely a fraternal envoy to the Catholics of a nation; actually, he is an unofficial diplomat-and, when necessary, a papal hatchet...
...with smallpox but, later the same year, relented and presented her with a husband she loved passionately. For several years she was plagued by fear of barrenness, though eventually she bore eight children. Life evolved around them and the two men she adored, her husband Simon, a busy government envoy, and her father Thomas Dudley, who succeeded John Winthrop as Governor of Massachusetts...