Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whatever cost" was the naked doc trine of the necessities of power. Forgotten for the moment were the usual sententious pleas that Cypriots had to be protected from terrorists, that the Turks in Cyprus had to be saved from the Greeks, that most Cypriots would be worse off under Greek sovereignty...
...British have long feared that if Greek Cypriot extremists keep throwing bombs, many among the 94,000 Turkish Cypriot minority who want no part of union with Greece will fight back. One night last week a masked gunman entered a coffee shop in the village of Polis, ordered a Turkish Moslem constable to rise, then shot him dead. The murder, which islanders attributed to the underground EOKA terrorists, set off a round of communal fighting. For three days knives flashed and stones flew as Turk fought Greek in ugly little scrimmages all over the island. Scores were hurt. Many Greek...
Thirty-five hundred miles away, in the Indian Ocean Seychelles Islands, Greek Archbishop Makarios, whom Harding had exiled, reappeared in the news. Though the archbishop himself is kept under "light escort," his secretary, out for a stroll, evidently dropped a letter in a mailbox addressed to the editor of a Kenya newspaper. Unopened and uncensored, the letter reached Nairobi, where the East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that...
...ugly situation jeopardizes NATO, which seeks new tasks for itself; yet NATO has sought to avoid trouble by ignoring it. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak has proposed that NATO step in to supervise Cyprus' future self-determination, and at the same time see that the Greeks (who would undoubtedly win) give protective guarantees to the island's 20% Turk minority. Britain's needs in Cyprus would be amply served by a long-term lease guaranteeing free use of the sizable air, troop and naval base they are now building on the Episkopi Bay; NATO...
...estates, came to the church in tearful anger. A landlord, annoyed by one of his farmhand tenants, had refused to pay any of them for their work that week. The priest, whose life until then had been the unharried existence of a Catholic school teacher of algebra, Latin and Greek, was shocked. "Is weeping all you propose to do?" he roared at his parishioners. "Let's teach that man a lesson." He there upon organized a torchlight parade that marched round and round the landlord's house. The landlord paid the wages, but he called the parade...