Word: greeke
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Cambridge has also joined the mass of communities across the nation who are fighting the expansion of the McDonald's quickie-hamburger chain. The Douglass Street Tenants' Association, a local civic group, asked the State Landmarks Commission to declare the pre-Civil War Greek revival building McDonald's planned to raze an official landmark. The city council temporarily held up the necessary building permits...
There is every indication that Kissinger and the State Department knew of the Greek junta's planned coup in Cyprus a long time in advance. Although the official U.S. line is that the junta was warned of the possible consequences of the act, there is no evidence that the U.S. made real efforts to stop the Greeks from engineering the Cyprus coup. Judging from past statements and policies, this probably was because Kissinger and the State Department had long been irritated by the neutrality of Cyprus President Archbishop Makarios in the light of U.S. bids to strengthen NATO's base...
Admittedly, the Cyprus situation has been an extremely confusing affair--beginning with an act of illegal aggression on the part of the Greek military junta, progressing to the hopeful replacement of that oppressive government with a more open civilian one in Greece, and rapidly deteriorating into the re-opening of the thousand year rivalry between the Greeks and the Turks. Still, Kissinger's role and lack of action at certain decisive points during the crises are puzzling...
...leaving NATO, Greece also leaves itself open to attack by the Communist countries to the north, although such aggression at present is highly unlikely. Yet in that volatile area, even the improbable must be considered. American and NATO officials hope that as Greek leaders come to realize their potential danger, they will decide that they need NATO as much as, if not more than, NATO needs them...
...solution to the Cyprus crisis is not taksim, the partition of the island into Greek and Turkish enclaves. Nor is enosis, union with Greece, feasible. As long as a Turkish minority resides in the midst of a Greek majority only strife and bloodshed will be the legacy for future generations. The mutual hatred that developed during the long centuries of Ottoman domination cannot be easily forgotten...