Word: greek
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According to Kyprianou, Russia would soon be supplying not only mon ey, but arms as well in the struggle to outmaneuver the Turkish minority on the island. Since the Greek Cypriots were already adequately stocked with enough firepower to destroy the Turkish Cypriots, some experts assumed that the deal might involve radar equipment and antiaircraft weapons sophisticated enough to prevent Turkish planes from resuming their forays from the mainland 40 miles away. Such equipment would surely require the services of expert Russian personnel-giving Moscow its first real foothold in the Mediterranean...
Would Khrushchev really grab the opportunity? Or was it just a matter of helping Makarios bluff the West into supporting the Greek Cypriot stand? The Soviet ambassador in Ankara went out of his way to reassure Turkey's Premier Ismet Inonu. Moscow was well aware of the large peril to peace that would be created by an attempt at destruction of NATO's power balance in that crucial region of the Mediterranean. Neither Turkey nor Greece nor NATO nor the U.S. would sit quietly by to watch a new Cuba being constructed in the lake between Europe...
...latest trouble started fortnight ago when the head of the King's military household, General Constantine Dovas, suggested that the Greek army be renamed the "Royal Hellenic Army" as a wedding gift to the King. Defense Minister Petros Garoufalias approved, embodied the change in a decree. After all, the navy, air force and gendarmerie already bore the appellation "royal" in their titles, and Constantine was not only by law the commander in chief of the army but in fact had their loyalty -more than he could expect from any of the other factions in the Greek body politic. Nonetheless...
...Frederika, an exceedingly bright woman who takes the Greek throne seriously and speaks her mind about matters of state in the man's world of the Mediterranean, this was the last straw. She fired back her own letter to Papandreou and had it delivered to all of the Athens papers. "The late King Paul and I," she wrote, "lived our whole life inspired only by our unselfish love for our people and our family. After the cruel loss of my husband, it is with these happy memories that I wish to live, quietly and in peace...
...carefully analyzing this Olympian grouping, we can deduce many things about humanity. Everyone worth studying is male. Just under a fourth of them wrote in Latin or Greek. Another fourth wrote in English...