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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...
...Philip are 10-to-l favorites for Elizabeth's baby, but the odds makers are covering all angles. For example, says Bookie Harry Garcia, "we're ready to lay 50,000 to 1 against the Queen-Her Majesty, that is-having a boy and calling him Prince Nikita...
...very formidable political figure." She tried for nearly two years to prevent the Pentagon from promoting Actor James Stewart to brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve; she didn't think he warranted the rank. And when Maggie denounced the nuclear test ban treaty last year, Nikita Khrushchev was moved to observe: "It is hard to believe how a woman, if she is not the devil in disguise of a woman, can make such a malicious, man-hating call...
...Nikita Khrushchev had a fine man on hand for the job in Vice President Kassim Hanga, who studied at Moscow's Lumumba University for 21 years. And if Red China's Premier Chou En-lai was interested, he had only to pop over from West Africa and talk with Peking's good friend, Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed. "Babu" would certainly listen...
Recognition of the new regime poured in from Communist countries: North Korea, Cuba, Red China, the Soviet Union. Okello, taking time out from his broadcasting to thank Moscow for its recognition, messaged Nikita Khrushchev his agreement that capitalism should be buried. On Zanzibar at least, declared Okello, "the grave is ready...