Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Englishmen once again walked the streets of Cyprus freely, and in the capital of Nicosia long-idle café waiters scurried to serve capacity crowds. For the first time in months there even were queues outside the theaters near "Murder Mile,"−downtown Ledra Street which E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriot underground, had so long terrorized with its murders...
Greece, though a considerable maritime power, was the only nation besides Egypt to refuse to attend the conference. How could a Greek Foreign Minister go to London when Cyprus is in an uproar...
Behind the yellow stone walls of Nicosia's Central Prison last week, three young Greek Cypriots in their early 20s awaited the hangman. Andreas Zakos and Charilaos Mikhail, condemned for ambushing a British army jeep and killing its driver, lay placidly on their cots and listened to records of Bach and Beethoven. Iacovos Patatsou, who had been condemned for killing a Turkish Cypriot policeman (out of uniform), accepted the farewell of his widowed mother: "Face death with courage...
...tenseness spread over the island, affecting British and Cypriot alike, the Greek Cypriot underground E.O.K.A. announced the capture of a 78-year-old retired British civil servant named John Cremer, who is spending his old age teaching English to Cypriot children. He had been on an evening stroll when four masked men stepped from behind a tree, and one, brandishing a revolver, said: "E.O.K.A. Hold up your hands. We are not going to kill you." Cremer replied: "Well, it doesn't much matter if you do, at my age." They bound him hand and foot and drove off with...
...clock one morning last week the three Greek Cypriots were led out of their cells, amid the uncontrolled shouting of their fellow prisoners. They mounted gallows fitted for a simultaneous triple drop and manned by a hangman flown in especially from England for the job. At 1:05 a.m., the farewells of their comrades still dinning in their ears and the Greek national anthem on their lips, they died...