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...Contrary, State Department reaction this week has characterized the happenings in Cyprus as "internal strife," U.S. officials have insisted that they believe Makarios's overthrow was a result of his unpopularity and not of action on the junta's part...
Just as when Salvadore Allende was deposed and murdered in Chile last fall, the United States knew well in advance that the Greek junta intended to purge Makarios's government and set up its own puppet regime. Since November, when the Greek military ousted President George Papodopoulos, the State Department has received continued warnings of the junta's intentions. This spring, Makarios accused the Greek officers of the Cypriot National Guard of supplying arms and inspiration to a group of Cypriot terrorists fighting for union with Greece. Two weeks ago, he ordered the removal of all Greek officers from Cyprus...
...there is no evidence that the State Department even took up the matter with Greek officials. Since U.S. funds and hardware support the Greek junta, an American warning about such action surely would have carried weight and may have prevented a senseless action that may still bring all out war in the Mediterranean...
TOLERENCE of the Athens junta and its subversive aggression points out an irreconcilable contradiction in American policy: The government of the people of the United States supports values and actions that directly oppose those which Americans pride themselves in upholding...
...which is Hemingway's The Spanish Earth; Rossif's covers the most ground of any of them. Sir John Gielgud and Irene Worth narrate. This is the third in a series of political movies to be presented by the Greece Action Group to help raise money for the junta's victims, and while Rossif's movie isn't as directly relevant to the fight against the Greek dictatorship as Z was, the connection between what went on in Spain 35 years ago and what's going on in the Mediterranean now is anything but farfetched. Spain marked...