Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embargo but also he was furious at the Administration for the dismissal of his old friend, Robert T. Griffin, from the General Services Administration. Other Democratic leaders, however, were frantically mobilizing support-for opposite sides. Indiana's John Brademas, the Democratic whip and a leader of the pro-Greek lobby, was fighting to keep the embargo. At this point, he had a lone vote in reserve. Opposing him was Democratic Floor Leader James Wright of Texas, who had already used up most of the "sleepers" he could call on to vote for the resumption of arms sales to Turkey...
...controversial policy dates back to 1974 when Greek Cypriots overthrew the government of Cyprus, and Turkey invaded the island to protect the Turkish minority there. Using U.S. weapons that were specifically prohibited for other than defense purposes, the Turks eventually seized nearly half the island. They have been occupying it ever since...
...getting the Senate to vote to lift the embargo was not simple. Senators were subjected to considerable pressure by the pro-Greek lobby. Democrat Paul Sarbanes of Maryland, for example, asserted that the embargo must remain because "at no point have there been concrete actions by the Turkish forces to return any of the fruits of their aggression." On the other side, the Administration applied more pressure than on any foreign issue since the Panama Canal treaties and the Middle East plane deal. Every Senator was reached at least once, and many met personally with Carter. The President had three...
...proposal, informally made to Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman in Austria, that the Begin government respond to his Jerusalem peace initiative with a small gesture of good faith. Sadat had suggested that Israel return El Arish, the capital of the Sinai, and historic Mount Sinai, site of the Greek orthodox monastery of St. Catherine's. If El Arish were returned to Egyptian sovereignty, the President hinted, it could be used as the site for new peace talks. As for Mount Sinai, Sadat hoped to lay the cornerstone for an ecumenical center containing a Christian church, an Islamic mosque...
...match, if it proceeds as planned, will be Christina's third. Her previous ventures in love have been disasters. Her first important romance was with Peter Goulandris, heir to another Greek shipping fortune, but the couple were so incompatible that they never got as far as the altar. That over, she married, at 20, a Los Angeles real estate broker more than twice her age named Joseph Bolker. Nine months later, they divorced. Four months after her father's death, in 1975, she married Alexander Andreadis, scion of an Athens business family. "It is like being made a king...