Word: nes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greece, Turkey and Britain, the three co-guarantors of Cyprus' independence under a 1960 treaty, to work out a peaceful solution for Cyprus. Turkey sent Foreign Minister Turan Günes to the Geneva peace talks with orders not to agree to any withdrawal from captured territory unless there was some concession by Greece in return. Günes floated a trial balloon that...
Turkey might settle for partition, with both Greece and Turkey exercising rule over the island. But the proposal was badly received by the other countries, and Günes quickly abandoned the idea...
...Foreign Minister, George Mavros, who brought three demands: an effective ceasefire, law and order on the island and withdrawal of all "foreign troops," meaning the whole Turkish invasion force and a few hundred regular Greek officers. Turkey seemed in no mood for conciliation. Said Günes: "A cease-fire alone does not equal a solution for Cyprus. We do not want a return to the status quo existing before the coup." With neither side seemingly willing to make concessions, Britain's Foreign Secretary James Callaghan attempted to find a compromise. But at week's end, after talks...
...true that some of Lovecraft's stories on the Cthulu Mythos - The Call of Cthulu, At the Mountains of Madness - rank high among the horror sto nes of the English language. But Great Cthulu only knows why perfectly good, independent writers from the late Au gust Derleth to Colin Wilson have seized and elaborated on the Mythos in their work...
...what death is?" Charles de Gaulle asked his former Minister of Culture, André Malraux. "The goddess of sleep," the renowned French novelist replied, adding: "We belong to that category of people who don't care about being killed." That lofty dialogue is part of Les Chênes Qu'On Abat (Fallen Oaks). Malraux's 236-page account of an "interview" between the two men eleven months before De Gaulle's death. Published in Paris last week, the book reveals little of substance that is new about De Gaulle but provides plenty of fresh anecdotes...