Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Local Greek and Cypriot students and faculty members of the Committee for Relief and the Restoration of Democracy in Cyprus have collected over 100 pints of blood since Tuesday to aid Greek Cypriot victims of this week's fighting in Cyprus...
...international aggression and flagrant violation of the 1960 Cyprus Independence Treaty by a desperate and unpopular dictatorship, it is deplorable that the United States government has done relatively little to uphold its obligation to support democracy throughout the world. Our government has not seen fit either to condemn Greek interference and the new Cypriot government--led by a confessed murderer and terrorist whose loyalty and subservience to Athens is unquestionable--or to support, as Britain has done, Makarios's pleas for world powers to "assist the struggle against the rebellion and preserve the independence and democracy of Cyprus...
Just as when Salvadore Allende was deposed and murdered in Chile last fall, the United States knew well in advance that the Greek junta intended to purge Makarios's government and set up its own puppet regime. Since November, when the Greek military ousted President George Papodopoulos, the State Department has received continued warnings of the junta's intentions. This spring, Makarios accused the Greek officers of the Cypriot National Guard of supplying arms and inspiration to a group of Cypriot terrorists fighting for union with Greece. Two weeks ago, he ordered the removal of all Greek officers from Cyprus...
...there is no evidence that the State Department even took up the matter with Greek officials. Since U.S. funds and hardware support the Greek junta, an American warning about such action surely would have carried weight and may have prevented a senseless action that may still bring all out war in the Mediterranean...
...John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked the end of a peculiar epoch in modern history, a time when intellectuals dared to commit themselves to political causes...