Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Athens, Defense Ministry chiefs hastily called a 5:30 a.m. military conference, and the Greek navy was ordered to cruise off the island of Rhodes, accompanied by transports loaded with paratroopers. Said aging Premier George Papandreou: "If Turkey enters the insane asylum, we will...
...Friday, Rossides excitedly recited an hour-long litany of alleged Turkish crimes. Turkey's veteran Ambassador Orhan Eralp made a five-minute rebuttal. Refusing to "rehash" the past, Eralp described the Turkish ultimatum as a "note of warning" that called for Greek Cypriot observance of "human rights." He concluded: "The time for words has passed. Let us proceed to action...
...week's end Greece and Turkey were no longer eyeball to eyeball. But the truce was still an uneasy one subject to the whims of fanatic Cypriot gunmen of both Greek and Turkish persuasion. The crisis offered a fertile ground for big-power meddling. France's President Charles de Gaulle backed the Greek Cypriot position, which made him a hero to the Greeks, while U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was being burned in effigy in Athens. The Soviet Union was also happily taking sides in a quarrel between NATO partners, and gave down-the-line support to the government...
Clutching the hand of his distraught mother, Queen Frederika, Greece's new King Constantine, 23, headed a funeral cortege that included five reigning monarchs and scores of princes, Presidents and Premiers. At Metropolitan Cathedral, 50 bearded Greek Orthodox bishops in white and gold robes assisted the Primate of Greece in the 50-minute ceremony. As the service ended, Frederika kissed her husband's coffin, then broke into uncontrollable sobs...
Already the Cyprus crisis and the resulting anti-American demonstrations in Greece have at least temporarily scared off millions of U.S. investment dollars desperately needed to speed up Greek industrialization. Income from tourism has plummeted and the maintenance of the military on constant alert is a steady drain on the government's coffers. Though Papandreou and Constantine both favor a moderate solution to the Cyprus problem, popular indignation on the question could endanger the government-and the throne-unless some sort of settlement clearly favorable to Greece is achieved. Thus the future of an old man named Papandreou...