Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will follow you," sniffed Cyprus' bearded Archbishop Makarios to retired Greek Army Colonel George Grivas. The year was 1951, and the two were meeting in Cyprus to discuss Grivas' plan for an armed uprising against the British. Though Grivas went on to lead his revolt-and help win independence for Cyprus in 1960-the soldier and the Archbishop could never seem to make peace. Last week they were bickering as bitterly as ever. Only this time, their disagreement was threatening the six-month-old government of Greek Premier Stephan Stephanopoulos...
...Grivas a trigger-happy jackboot bent on grabbing full power on the island. Grivas in turn claims that Makarios is vacillating, dishonest, and a dupe of the Communists, who has no intention of honoring his pledge to bring about enosis, the unity of Cyprus with Greece. In 1964, the Greek government seemed to side with Grivas when it sent him to Nicosia to take charge of Cyprus' 11,000-man National Guard, the regular 950-man Greek army contingent, and some 8,500 mainland "volunteers" stationed in Cyprus to help ward off any possible invasion by Turkey. Ever since...
...week's end the dispute was rapidly boiling toward a crisis. Though Stephanopoulos backs Grivas, Makarios has the support of the Greek Foreign Minister, the right wing, the Communists, and possibly even King Constantine himself. Makarios also remains strong among the Cypriote. This week Grivas is scheduled to fly to Athens to plan his next move with Stephanopoulos...
...influence, the documents in the Jericho cave show that they were practicing Jews at the time of Alexander. Thus the "Samaritan schism" from the Jews has to be dated much later, probably during the 1st century before Christ, says Cross. The marriage contracts prove that the Samaritans frequently married Greeks and were Hellenized even before Alexander conquered them. A number of the nobles wore rings and seals with "lovely naked figures of Greek goddesses" as well as traditional symbols of Jewish religion. The discovery thus challenges the Biblical notion that the Samaritans were an inferior and degraded people. Seemingly, they...
Cyprus has been in a state of crisis since December 1963, when fighting broke out between the ethnic Greek and Turkish population over Greek Cypriot efforts to obtain greater political control through constitutional revision. U.N. forces have been in Cyprus since March...