Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning before Christmas, Nicosia woke to the chattering of machine guns and the crack of rifles. The Greek Cypriot police were fighting it out with Turkish Cypriot civilians. In the northern section of Nicosia, 10,000 Turkish Cypriots were without water and rapidly running out of food. In his official home in one of the bastions of the city's old Venetian wall, Dr. Kuchuk held hazardous cease-fire meetings while bullets poured into his house from two sides...
ISLANDS, proclaimed the Greek Line brochure for the cruise ship Lakonia...
Though the Lakonia was 33 years old, she was on her first voyage under the Greek flag. As the Dutch liner Johan van Oldenbarnevelt, she had for years plied the route from Holland to the Netherlands East Indies, during World War II had served as a British troop ship. Unlike newer ships, her bulkheads below deck were wood-paneled and her wiring system was oldfashioned; three times, under the Dutch, the liner was hit with small fires that were easily brought under control. A year ago, with passenger traffic proving unprofitable, the Dutch owners sold the vessel to the Greek...
Captain's Retort. In Funchal, many of the survivors bitterly accused the Lakonia's crew of cowardice, panic and incompetence in the face of the disaster. One woman charged that she found a Greek crewman looting her cabin when she went to get her life jacket, and another claimed that a sailor had made a pass at her. Undoubtedly, many of the accusations were the result of passenger terror and hysteria and the fact that few of the crew spoke English, thus causing their intentions to be misconstrued. But it was evident that the fire-fighting procedures were...
...been the last to leave his ship. Tearfully, he denied charges of misconduct. "There was no panic aboard my ship," he said, "neither among the crew nor among the passengers. My crew did not try to jump into the lifeboats ahead of the passengers." But the Greek Line ordered Zarbis and his officers to report immediately to the Lakonia's home port of Piraeus, where the inquiry will be conducted...