Word: greeke
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After three days of brutal fighting, the war between Greek Cypriots and Turkish troops who invaded Cyprus by sea and air tapered off last week into a fitful ceasefire. Blue-helmeted United Nations soldiers, who frequently came under fire in the course of the fighting and suffered at least twelve Canadian wounded, finally managed to pry the two sides apart. In a decisive move, 500 United Nations soldiers, at the direction of Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, occupied the strategic Nicosia airport. The U.N. action denied the airport's runways to Greeks who had been using them...
...addition to the dead and wounded, whose numbers were still being counted, Greeks were holding thousands of Cypriot prisoners, including 1,750 in the Limassol football stadium. Reportedly, hundreds of Greek P.O.W.s were taken off the island to Turkey. Both sides obviously hoped to use the prisoners as bar-gaming chips in peace negotiations that got under way last week in Geneva...
...Cyprus. Clerides is a British-educated lawyer who flew with the R.A.F. in World War II, was shot down over Europe, and finished the war in a P.O.W. camp. At the time of the coup he was president of the House of Representatives and one of the few Greek leaders on the deeply divided island who was fully accepted by the minority Turks. For seven years, Clerides has held a running series of friendly talks with Turkish Leader Rauf Denktas, 50, on ways to end the imbroglio between their ethnic communities. Denktas, to whom Clerides paid one of his first...
Makarios was in Washington last week for talks with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, giving every indication that he planned to return to Cyprus soon. Greek government sources said that Athens would once again recognize Makarios' right to the presidency. The Greek sources insisted that the archbishop's overthrow had been specifically ordered by General Dimitrios loannides, the strongman of the Greek military government that fell last week, loannides, it was said, also picked one-tune Cypriot Underground Fighter Sampson, 39, to succeed Makarios. But when Athens withdrew its support...
Despite the urgent need to begin repairs, Greek Cypriots were more concerned over Turkish territorial gains in the war. Turks now proudly hold Kyrenia, the first port they have occupied since the division of the island following independence from Britain in 1960. From Kyrenia, the Turkish gains stretch through a ten-mile-wide corridor to Nicosia and its large enclave of Turkish Cypriots. "Kyrenia is now the door and window of the Turkish community," said Turkish Leader Denktas. He added, not altogether lightly, "Now I will be able to go swimming in Kyrenia. I have not been allowed...