Word: ethnics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positions. In recent months, however, a measure of peace and order finally seemed to descend on the island where Aphrodite, the goddess of love, first set her foot on land. Down came many of the roadblocks that had divided 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...
...Lieut. General George Grivas. While Makarios seems to favor an independent Cyprus with friendly relations with Greece, Grivas, the island's most fearsome hawk, still holds out for enosis (union) with the mainland and has no patience with the Turkish Cypriots, who want their own self-ruled ethnic cantons...
Turkish Advantage. Even in normal times, the massacre would have exacerbated relations between Turkey and Greece, since each country has a legal responsibility under the island's 1960 independence charter to protect its own ethnic groups. Toward that end, Turkey is granted the right to station 650 troops there, and Greece 950-though both countries have in the past seven years illegally infiltrated many times that number. At present, there are about 1,500 Turkish soldiers on Cyprus and roughly 8,000 regular Greek troops. There are also 4,000 United Nations troops whose job is to keep...
After a proud and prosperous history going back to 1796, Cleveland in recent years has suffered from a malaise born of hubris and small minds. It has a sound, diversified economy and a renowned cultural establishment that theoretically should draw strength from its enclaves of ingrown, Old World-oriented ethnic communities-63 of them in all. Yet it remains a frustrated and fragmented society. Negroes, who were still being recruited from the South by the city's industry as recently as 1958, form the most recent wave of immigration. Three hundred thousand strong, they account...
Before the World Journal Tribune folded last spring, its Sunday magazine, New York, acquired a reputation for breezy comment on the city, from its fleeting mod-pop fancies to its durable ethnic folkways. Unlike other publications that have come and gone, New York was missed enough to make it want to come back. Last week the magazine threw a midday party to announce its reappearance as an independent publication in March...