Word: nato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, violently and volubly disagree with Makarios' interpretation. In any case, Turkey would be unlikely to attempt an armed invasion of Cyprus unless the Turkish Cypriots were in danger of being wiped out. Moreover, last week elements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet had joined the Turkish navy in NATO maneuvers that seemed more for the purpose of keeping an eye on Turkey's intentions than for perfecting naval tactics...
...Council. There, in two successive meetings, delegates made predictable speeches-U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and Britain's Sir Patrick Dean calling for swift establishment of a peacekeeping force on the turbulent island, while Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko depicted Cyprus as the innocent victim of a dastardly NATO plot, and Greece's Dimitri Bitsios argued that the island's "very existence" was threatened by invasion from Turkey...
...affronting two members of NATO, the Johnson administration can only have weakened that increasingly shaky alliance by giving de Gaulle further reason to demand independent national action. And the aid cutback will probably be used as effective anti-American propaganda in Latin America to substantiate the Castroite charge that we are bellicose and impotent...
Message from Nikita. The bitter fighting at Ayios Sozomenos symbolized the explosive nature of the Cyprus problem. Desperately, with a force of only 2,700 men, the British hoped to keep the peace until reinforcements arrived in the form of U.S. and other NATO forces. At least 10,000 soldiers would be necessary for the job. But Cyprus' Greeks had terrifying visions of a NATO plot to impose a political solution on terms favorable to the Turkish Cypriots. So Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, accepted the idea of a peacekeeping force only on condition that it be under...
...Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika-the line still held. But many wondered for how long. Britain's central strategic reserve at home has been reduced to a collection of isolated units, her 5,000-man Aden force seriously depleted by East African demands, and in West Germany-where the NATO-committed British army of the Rhine is already some 3,000 troops below its pledged 55,000-man level-a 3,000-man brigade is poised for possible transfer to one of the trouble spots. Britain's 171,000-man army is 9,000 men short of its authorized...