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Evaluating the likelihood that U.N. mediation would produce an acceptable solution to the Cyprus crisis, Sir Patrick said that he was "hopeful" that Sakari S. Tuomioja of Finland, the U.N. mediator, would offer some solid suggestions "in six or seven weeks...
...Johnson seemed as much taken with the whole business as the tourists were. "I know so many people over in Finland, Denmark, the Philippines and India!" he said with a glow. "I feel like I've been on a tour!" One of the last tourists to leave sidled up to a watching newsman, tugged at his sleeve and said: "Excuse me, sir. I just came in on the plane from Denmark a little while ago and came by the gate." Gesturing to his fellow tourists chatting with the President, he asked: "Er . . . does this sort of thing happen very...
...Finland's Ambassador to Sweden, Tuomioja (pronounced Twoo-mee-o-ya) has previously done U.N. jobs as an administrator and trouble-shooter in Laos, one of the few places in the world that can match the complexity of Cypriot politics...
...advance party took off from Ontario while the Security Council was still debating the formation of the United Nations peace-keeping force in Cyprus-which will unfortunately be known as U.N.F.I.C.Y.P.-and it landed in Nicosia far ahead of contingents also due from Brazil, Sweden, Ireland, Austria and Finland. There was reason to hurry, because it almost seemed as if the island's 500,000 Greeks and the government of Archbishop Makarios were trying to subdue the 100,000 Turkish minority before the U.N. takes control...
Sweden was also ready to send troops but demanded that at least one other neutral, non-NATO nation join the operation as well. Finland would fill the bill, but could not immediately because President Urho Kekkonen was out of the country. Brazil, torn by domestic unrest and a faltering economy, could not spare even a battalion. That left Austria and Ireland. But Austria, trapped by a Cabinet crisis, was without a government, and Ireland was willing to play follower, not leader...