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...least a thousand victims on either side, small Greek forces continued to hold out against overwhelming Turkish power. Skirmishes raged round the Kyrenia area as ill-equipped Greeks defended such small Greek Cypriot villages as Karavas, Lapithos and Agridhaki. High on Mount Kyparissovouno, nine miles west of Kyrenia, mortar shells ignited massive forest fires...
...casualties. Monasteries and Crusader castles, the diadems among Cyprus' sightseeing attractions, were hit by gunfire or seared by shell-started flames. In Famagusta, the church of St. Nicholas where the kings of Jerusalem were once crowned was damaged. The temple of Aphrodite in Paphos was seriously pocked by mortar shells. In Bellapaise, high above the sea on the north coast, the 14th century abbey with its lemon trees is under United Nations protection...
When the fighting started, Makarios was in the presidential palace greeting a delegation of Greek Orthodox school children from Cairo. With the building being repeatedly hit by tank and mortar fire, the archbishop and three bodyguards ducked out a rear door, crossed a garden where no tanks or armored cars had yet appeared and commandeered a passing car. As the President of Cyprus lay on the floor, the party headed for Paphos, on the southwest coast, where Makarios was born and where the population was fanatically loyal...
...that trouble my classmates and yet I know my motives are not evil. I though of teaching next year but there are no jobs; I considered organizing but there is no money. I, along with many other people here, intend to fulfill my obligations--but one cannot build without mortar and brick...
...brick and mortar alone turned out to be insufficient. The housing program got off to such a fast start that it caught the Nixon Administration unprepared. Taking advantage of the administrative chaos, unscrupulous speculators put up ramshackle homes and bilked thousands of poor buyers. Much of the housing, moreover, was overconcentrated on the edge of the metropolitan areas. Upwardly mobile blacks and whites were thus encouraged to leave the inner city, leaving behind the more helpless and criminally inclined groups. Because of the social decay that ensued, structurally sound housing was abandoned, contributing to the ghetto housing shortage...