Word: kyrenian
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...their corridor between Kyrenia and Nicosia. By week's end the Turkish force was estimated at 30,000 men backed by 300 tanks. In political talks in Geneva, the Turkish government delayed attempts to scale down its Cyprus force and took advantage of the situation by broadening its Kyrenian beachhead in open defiance of a ceasefire agreement...
...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 and children. When...
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