Word: kokkina
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cyprus remains a powder keg surrounded by careless smokers. Chief among them is bearded, baffling Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, whose attempt to overrun the Turkish Cypriot beachhead at Kokkina brought swift retaliation from Turkey in the form of jet fighters. What Makarios could not win by force, he now tried to gain by blockade. Bowing to the ceasefire order of the U.N. Security Council, Makarios fixed a grip of iron around the 80 villages and the fortified quarters of the cities that house the 100,000 people of the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...gently agreeing with every visitor from the U.N. commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, to U.S. Ambassador Taylor G. Belcher, and then going his own way. He seemed unperturbed by the blast from Athens, where Greece's Premier George Papandreou accused him of launching the drive against Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter who led the four-year guerrilla...
Expelled Greeks. As Makarios spoke, his Greek Cypriot forces were building up their strength in the Kokkina area for what the U.N. feared might be a second strike against the small Turkish Cypriot redoubt, where refugees from other villages huddled in caves. Such a step would certainly provoke another wave of Turkish retaliation from the mainland; in fact, many expect the Turks to attack again. In Thimayya's opinion, Turkey may "bomb Cyprus to save its people from starvation and make Makarios lift the blockade." In the Turkish capital Premier Ismet Inönü was desperately trying...
...midsummer heat and sentries dozed over their Bren guns in sandbagged positions on the high ridges. But the quiet was deceptive, openly characterized by U.N. Commander Thimayya as "only a breather." Without much success, he was frantically trying to get U.N. troop units sandwiched between the opposing sides at Kokkina as a way to prevent another outbreak. At the same time, he appealed to U.N. headquarters for more troops, arguing that his 6,000 men were not enough to keep the peace; but no one was volunteering. Meanwhile, the careless smokers lingered at the powder keg. Declared Thimayya at week...
...blue Mediterranean sky dropped flights of U.S.-built jet fighters. At first, the planes swooped low on "reconnaissance" sorties that were clearly intended as a threat to the Greek Cypriots. When the Greeks did not withdraw, the Turkish pilots poured rocket fire into the Greek positions around Kokkina. Three more jets blasted the Kyrenian mountain range as Greek Cypriot antiaircraft batteries filled the air with flak bursts. At the coastal town of Xeros. Turkish jets riddled a Greek Cypriot patrol boat, and the crew ran it ashore. Swedish U.N. troops tried to arrange a truce at Kokkina to remove women...