Word: limassol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beach. Greece, limited by treaty to a 950-man contingent in Cyprus, has carried shipload after shipload of fresh troops and guns into the southern port of Limassol. Numbering more than 3,000 so far, they were quickly transported to camps of the Greek Cypriot national guard in the Troodos Mountains and elsewhere. Part of a Nicosia mental hospital is being used as a storage depot for newly arrived Greek arms and ammunition; four batteries of field artillery, quantities of light antiaircraft guns, antitank weapons and armored cars have recently turned up at a Greek encampment at Lefkoniko, near Famagusta...
Ball's arguments should have been strongly reinforced by events inside and outside of Cyprus. At Limassol, the island's second largest city, Cypriot irrationality achieved its newest flowering...
...trouble started at the nearby village of Episkopi, one of the few still sheltering a mixed population of Greek and Turkish Cypriots. According to Greek sources, a Turkish police sergeant in charge of a four-man detail relieved his two Greek cops of duty and then phoned headquarters in Limassol to say he was no longer taking orders from the Greek Cypriot chief of police...
Electoral Paralysis. The Greek response was to start shooting at the police station. Fighting swiftly spread to Limassol itself (pop. 31,000 Greeks, 6,000 Turks), and some 50 persons were killed or wounded in a series of fire fights for such strongpoints as a local brewery and the 12th century castle where England's Richard the Lion-Hearted married Berengaria of Navarre. British troops from the adjacent Akrotiri airfield finally separated the antagonists and won agreement to a ceasefire. But then the Greek Cypriots, supported by two homemade tanks, launched a dawn assault on the Turkish quarter...