Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cyprus itself last week there were the usual minor altercations. Shots were exchanged across the Green Line, dividing Nicosia into Greek and Turkish quarters, and a Greek Cypriot was wounded at Ambelikou, a small village near Lefka whose Turkish inhabitants are surrounded by Greek Cypriots. The week's most intriguing development was the mystery of the missile ship. After the island was hit by a retaliatory Turkish air raid last August, Makarios ordered ground-to-air missiles from Russia, and the weapons were shipped to Egypt to await transshipment. Greek Cypriot missile crews, officered by "volunteers" from the Greek...
Word from Grivas. Observers expected to see at least some glamorous, new Soviet equipment at last week's military parade in Nicosia to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Greek Cypriot uprising against the British. The parade was a disappointment, and the only Soviet weapons on display were trucks pulling old British field guns...
...Zorba the Greek...
...midnight the day before tickets went on sale, fans began lining up outside Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper. Was Callas singing? Tebaldi? Sutherland? None of them, but a Canadian-Greek girl named Anastasia Strataki, known in the world of the opera as Teresa Stratas...
When Turkey lost the war, Kemal Pasha fought on in secret. He cached arms all over the country, established a National Assembly at Ankara, and formed a new Turkish government with himself at its head. Within three years he had smashed an Anglo-Greek army of more than 100,000 men in two magnificent campaigns in Anatolia, recaptured Smyrna* and swung north to the Bosporus, toppled the British government, and forced Lord Curzon to talk Turkey on Kemal's terms...