Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grudging Consent. It was up to Makarios to 1) yield to the Turkish threat, 2) try to negotiate some concession in return for yielding, or 3) stand pat in the hope that Turkey was bluffing or would be dissuaded by the U.S. or through fear of Russian and Greek intervention...
...peace-keeping force took a few aggressive steps. U.N. posts, manned by Swedish troops, were set up between the lines of the Turkish Cypriot defenders of Kokkina and the Greek Cypriot besiegers on the mountainside. Canadian, Finnish and Danish U.N. troops, moving forward with the bayonet, dismantled Turkish Cypriot gun positions that menaced a U.N. headquarters near Nicosia...
Even though the U.N. mediator, Finland's Sakari Tuomioja, suffered a stroke, negotiations in Geneva continued. Greek and Turkish representatives in Geneva pored over a plan, proposed by U.S. Special Envoy Dean Acheson, which apparently envisages a union of Cyprus with Greece (enosis), with special guarantees for the Turkish Cypriots and a permanent Turkish base on the island. Given suitable face-saving devices, Turkey and Greece might accept. The same old stumbling block is still Makarios, who was once a loud advocate of enosis but now seems to enjoy being head of a sovereign state...
Zooming about the island in rented red M.G.s and Sprites, correspondents covering the Cyprus fighting see something hidden from most war correspondents: both sides. Even the press corps headquarters-the comfortable Ledra Palace Hotel-is located directly on the often violated Green Line dividing Greek and Turkish factions. Pasting press stickers on their car windshields, the correspondents dash in and out of the fighting zones, crossing no man's land where armed U.N. troops dare not tread. Both Turkish and Greek Cypriots welcome the press because they want to get their views before world opinion. Still, crossing the lines...
While the police vainly searched for the fugitive, Münch and Heggemann decided to cherchez la femme-the fugitive's girl friend, beautiful Margit Steinheuer, 25, who had also disappeared. Two nights of pub crawling turned up a brokenhearted young Greek student who had been one of Margit's special friends. Taunted by Münch that he had perhaps been merely a passing fancy, the Greek whipped out a postcard of the Acropolis postmarked only a few days before in Athens. It bore no signature but only the message: "Now I can understand...