Word: greeke
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After the war, Donovan asked him to help the provisional Italian government beat off a threatened Communist takeover. Angleton assisted the carabinieri in rebuilding a counter-intelligence service. Through it, he acquired the Soviet instructions to the Italian Communists for supporting the Greek Communists in the civil war in Greece. He and his principal associate for all of his career, Raymond Rocca, who retired recently from the CIA, where he had been Angleton's chief deputy, ferreted out the exchange of correspondence between Stalin and Tito that foreshadowed the 1948 breach between them...
...crisis last week. As hundreds of cheering Turkish Cypriots listened over loudspeakers in Nicosia, their acknowledged political leader, Rauf Denktas., announced the formation of a separate federal state in the Turkish-occupied northern sector (see map). Denktas, 51, who will head up the new state, offered to join with Greek Cypriots in a federation if they should choose to form a similar state. But he flatly declared that "there is no possibility of living together with the Greek-Cypriot co-founders of the Republic of Cyprus." A 50-member constituent assembly, he added, would begin work immediately...
Denktas' statement hit the Greek-Cypriot community like a bombshell. Thousands of demonstrators poured into the streets, shouting, "Give us weapons to fight! No to partition!" To forestall a violent attack like the one that took place last August, in which U.S. Ambassador Rodger Davies was killed, Greek Cypriot troops hastily moved into positions around the American embassy...
There was no violence, but the Greek-Cypriot sense of betrayal could hardly have been deeper. Earlier in the week Archbishop Makarios, the prelate President of the constitutional Cyprus government, had approved a plan that would have created a "substantial" Turkish zone in northern Cyprus-a major concession-and would have allowed permanent settlement of Turkish refugees in the north. Glafkos Clerides, negotiator for the Greek Cypriots, insisted that major areas now under Turkish occupation must be restored to Greek control in order that some of the Greek refugees might be resettled...
Trying to come up with a word that adequately describes this year's Yale hockey team is not all that easy. About the only thing that comes to mind that really fits the Eli's plight is the ancient Greek phrase deinoteron horan, which literally means "most terrible to look upon," implying something frightfully wretched...