Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When the measure came to a roll-call vote last week, a series of ayes flashed on the House's electronic screen, and Ford led. Then in the last 50 seconds, a barrage of noes suddenly defeated the measure, 223-206. The crowd in the galleries, including many Greek Americans still incensed about Turkey's invasion of Cyprus and willing to lobby strenuously for their cause, erupted in cheers and applause...
...bride arrived 45 minutes late for her wedding, but that was the only time wasted in the speedy romance between Greek Shipping Heiress Christina Onassis, 24, and Banking Heir Alexander Andreadis, 30. After a one-month acquaintance and a week-long engagement, the couple had come to be wed in the Greek seaside town of Glyphada. While a score of family members -including Stepmother Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her son John -crowded together in the tiny chapel of Aiksonis, an exquisite recreation of a Byzantine monastery, Christina and Alexander repeated the vows of the Greek Orthodox Church, made the traditional...
...some, the hasty marriage looked suspiciously like a well-planned merger. Christina, who inherited a large part of a multimillion-dollar shipping empire after the death of Aristotle Onassis last March, had been dating Greek Shipping Heir Peter Goulandris, 27, until just three weeks before her wedding. Andreadis, whose own family holdings include three Greek banks, two shipyards, real estate, a fertilizer and canning factory, had been romancing Denise Sioris, 24, the daughter of a U.S. foreign service officer, for the past two years. "There was none of this falling madly in love at first sight," said one close friend...
...same time, Ankara is under little diplomatic pressure to compromise with the Greek side. The U.S. arms embargo to Turkey has disrupted relations between Washington and Ankara without making the Turks any more conciliatory on Cyprus. At the strong urging of the Ford Administration, the U.S. Senate last May voted to resume some military shipments to Turkey; the House will probably vote on the measure this week. Meanwhile, Turkey has temporarily rescinded its threat to close down the two dozen U.S. bases there-at least until the House votes...
...liberation by the Turkish peace operation" (meaning military invasion) that brought about the island's division. The Turkish sector was ablaze with thousands of bright red Turkish flags unfurled for the occasion. Significantly, no one seemed to be showing any Cyprus flags. That contrasted markedly with the chastened Greeks, who displayed only the flag of the island itself: a gold map of Cyprus encircled by an olive-branch garland on a white background. For the first time ever, the blue-and-white Greek banners that invariably headed any kind of Greek-Cypriot demonstration in the past were completely absent...