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...first airplanes appeared. They were propeller-driven C-130s and C-47s, and Cypriots hearing the hum of many motors realized instantly that the planes were not carrying the usual hordes of summer tourists. As each flight approached the plain between the capital city of Nicosia and the Kyrenia Range, which shields the capital from the sea, a stick of Turkish paratroopers jumped into the cloudless sky. Floating into the welcoming Turkish sector of the city, they were gathered into waiting cars, ambulances and even a bread truck and driven to fighting stations. One paratrooper, a 29-year-old Turk...
ALFRED AND SUSAN KROMHOLZ Kyrenia, Cyprus...
...extend the 6,100-man peace-keeping force's mandate for another three months, and U.N. Secretary-General U Thant announced at week's end that the Turks had at last agreed to hand over to the U.N. complete control of the strategic highway between Nicosia and Kyrenia. The agreement would represent a major Turkish concession toward peace. Question was, would the Greeks reciprocate by freeing some of the roads they control...
...main ports that Makarios' men enjoy, have had to adopt unorthodox import techniques that make it impossible to bring in as many reinforcements as the Greeks. One battalion of perhaps 200 paratroopers was recently dropped clandestinely along the 15-mile-long road from Nicosia to coastal Kyrenia, where the legal Turkish regiment keeps watch over the only outlet from the capital the Turkish Cypriots control. Along with the troops, the Turkish planes dropped bundles of tommy guns, rifles, mortars, bazookas and ammunition...
Exit the Foreigners. But how long could this semblance of order last? Tension mounted once again and trigger fingers were itching-this time at Temblos, a village not far from Kyrenia, where Greeks last week moved some of their heavy artillery around the mountains to threaten Turkish fighters who had moved in with guns and men. In a cloud on the heights far above, St. Hilarion's castle was occupied by Turkish irregulars with shotguns and pistols, defying the Greeks to attempt an attack...