Word: kythrea
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...weeks after Archbishop Makarios' exile, his efforts had not yet brought about sufficient orderliness to make Cyprus the reliable military base the British desire. Last week four terrorists, their heads covered by black woolen hoods, walked into St. George's Greek Orthodox Church in the town of Kythrea during a service and shouted to the 40 worshiping villagers: "Stand up and face the wall!" Then, with a single pistol shot, one of the hooded men killed Lay Reader Manoli Pierides while he was in the act of chanting the Gospel-apparently on account of Pierides' British sympathies...
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