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...Pirates added 2 more tallies in the 6th as Doug DeCinces committed 2 costly errors. His first boot allowed Steve Nicosia to reach first and load the bases with two out. Garner then shot an inside fastball to left for 2 runs. DeCinces fumbled Lee Lacy's pinch-hit grounder to reload the bases, but Moreno flied to center to end the threat...
...Carter Administration, like the Ford Administration, tends to blame Congress for overreacting to the Turkish occupation of Cyprus. The invasion was provoked by years of Greek-Cypriot repression of the Turkish minority on the island and by an abortive Athens-instigated coup in Nicosia. Ethnic loyalties have unquestionably played an unhelpful part in U.S. policy. An influential circle of a dozen or so legislators of Greek heritage rammed through the 1974 embargo, which was lifted only last year. The same "Greek lobby" was instrumental last week in blocking House approval of a $50 million military grant to Turkey. Since...
...defense. In addition, there would be two Presidents, one Turkish and one Greek, who would alternate as Cyprus' ceremonial chief of state every two years. Turks have also offered to surrender about 5% of the 1,375 sq. mi. occupied during the invasion, to reopen the airport at Nicosia (the island's capital) and to allow as many as 30,000 Greek Cypriot refugees to return to the Turkish-held city of Famagusta...
...Pitching IP H R ER SO BB Baloff (W, 3-0) 6-2/3 4 2 2 8 4 Bradshaw 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 Carione (L) 2/3 5 5 5 1 1 Murphy 2 3 4 3 2 2 Nicosia...
Captain Sam Melling, 44, British-born father of four, onetime R.A.F. flyer, chief pilot of Cyprus Airways, was enjoying a Saturday afternoon lunch with Wife Iris at a taverna in the mountains near Nicosia when he heard the news on the radio. Far below, in Nicosia, two gunmen had committed a political murder and were herding hostages to Larnaca airport. "I think we'd better dash back," said Captain Melling. "I'm the biggest hat in the company, and I'd better...