Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Clipping the Hawk. Before the snag, Vance had won a settlement under which the Greeks promised to remove within two months the 8,000 or so troops that they have illegally infiltrated into Cyprus during the past seven years, leaving only the 950 that they are entitled to station there under the island's 1960 independence accords. They also agreed to disband the 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard, to pay damages to the Turkish Cypriot villagers of Ayios Theodores and Kophinou for the Nov. 15 attack by Greek General George Grivas and his Guards...
Makarios objected to the disbanding of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, his main instrument of power, so long as the Turks were allowed to keep 650 men stationed on Cyprus and the Greeks 950. If the Guard must go, maintained Makarios, so must the foreign troops. He also felt that the sovereignty of Cyprus would be jeopardized by any broadening of U.N. jurisdiction on the island beyond the U.N.'s present duty to maintain the peace with 4,000 troops...
Volatile & Unpredictable. The other capitals nervously watched Nicosia. In Athens, the Greek junta, though unhappy about disbanding the Guard, which was commanded by Greek army officers and was a strong Greek tie to the island, announced that it had reached agreement with Turkey without waiting for Makarios to make up his mind. In Ankara, the government of Premier Siileyman Demirel became impatient at the delay. The Turks, whose navy maneuvered earlier in the week off the Cyprus coast, kept their armed forces in a high state of preparedness, ready to invade Cyprus and strike across the Thracian plain at Greece...
...month-old daughter. Says she: "I wish I had the resources to take a dozen." Women who have never married brush aside any implication that being a mother should cause comment. Chortles Louise Guenthner, 59, director of the Washington State Adoption Resources Exchange, who adopted an eleven-year-old Greek orphan and his nine-year-old sister: "It delights me when I am introduced as 'Miss Guenthner, an unmarried mother...
Wald concluded a 35-minute lecture and then announced that he and his family would leave for Stockholm Tuesday evening to accept his Nobel Prize in medicine. He then asked for "six beautiful girls" to help distribute wine and fresh bread "baked by two wonderful Greek ladies" to celebrate the occasion...