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...strong -as he put it, "not only for the island's security and return to normal, but also for facing certain other unpleasant situations." Guesses as to what these last might be ranged from repelling an invasion by Turkey to attacking the 7,000-man British garrison to trying to wipe out some of the isolated Turkish Cypriot positions, such as the schoolhouse in Polis where 700 men, women and children are surrounded by Greek Cypriot partisans. A British diplomat said, "Frankly, we don't know what's behind it," but added with feeling that anything that...
...four months, and Turkey last week was stunned when a politically disaffected gunman fired three shots point-blank at Premier Ismet Inonu but missed. On Cyprus the British troops, who have been desperately trying to prevent Cypriots from slaughtering one another, were reinforced by 1,500 men, bringing the garrison to a total...
...plebiscite in which Greek Cypriots voted 97% for enosis. In 1950 Makarios was elected Archbishop of Cyprus and simultaneously became Ethnarch, that is, leader of his people. He founded a militant youth group, which grew into the terrorist EOKA, and fought a savage four-year struggle against the British garrison. Arrested and exiled to the remote Seychelles Islands for a year, Makarios returned in triumph...
...boss's daughter and ran the company with such a velvet glove (the industry's first eight-hour day, first group insurance plan) that to this day fewer than half of Armco's 34,000 employees belong to the steelworkers' union; of cancer; in Garrison...
Arguments for Fullback. Last August when McNamara reshuffled the Berlin Command, trimming away 600 men from the garrison there, then declared his intention to remove the 3,500 men of the U.S. 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment from Germany, the Bonn government reacted frantically. The Pentagon intends to reduce the U.S.'s Germany contingent by still more troops, most of them noncombat types. But to soothe jangled German nerves, the withdrawals were suspended until last week's Big Lift exercise demonstrated just how swiftly the U.S. troops could be returned in case of trouble...