Word: greeke
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Relations between Greece and Turkey were further strained by a jurisdictional dispute in the Aegean Sea. Ever since oil was discovered off Thassos in 1971,* Greece has insisted that each of the 3,000 Greek islands in the sea has its own continental shelf, making the Aegean an exclusively Greek preserve. The Turks claim that the continental shelf of the Anatolian mainland bestows about half of the Aegean on Turkey. Two years ago, the countries came to the brink of war after Turkey sent an oil-exploration vessel around the area to establish Turkish rights. Meanwhile, both countries still maintain...
...view of top State Department officials, there is another reason for being nicer to Turkey: the Turks seem more flexible than the Greeks on the Cyprus dispute. In April the Turks submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a 34-page outline of proposals for settling the future of the island. In essence, the Turkish plan calls for a "bicommunal, bizonal" federal government for Cyprus with two legislative assemblies dealing separately with the domestic affairs of their respective populations, and jointly with external affairs and defense. In addition, there would be two Presidents, one Turkish and one Greek, who would...
Both Premier Caramanlis and Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou have rejected the Turkish proposals as a form of de facto partition of the island. Their counterproposal demands more limited Turkish-Cypriot autonomy, a guaranteed return to their homes for the majority of Greek-Cypriot refugees, and withdrawal of 29,000 Turkish troops still on the island...
Caramanlis has been carrying on his own form of pressure diplomacy. The keystone of the Greek Premier's foreign policy is to gain entry for Greece into the European Community. His reasons, however, have as much to do with politics as they do with economics. Says a Caramanlis aide: "Once in, we count on the European Community to back us in our disputes with Turkey." Ecevit is aware of that ploy. After the community's Foreign Ministers met last month with Ecevit, they agreed in principle to soothe Turkish fears of being isolated by Caramanlis...
...that June is here, junk movies are busting out all over. Capricorn One is the first decent one of the lot: it kills two hours with a breathless progression of incredible plot twists and daredevil aerial stunts. Even at its silliest-which is quite silly-this thriller makes The Greek Tycoon seem like a slow yacht to China. At its best, Capricorn One almost matches the trashy highs of Coma, the junk movie of the year to date...