Word: rauf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired diplomat who has spent many years in Cyprus [Nov. 28]. It is wrong to think that the Greeks and the Turks, who are hereditary enemies, can live peacefully in a mixed Cypriot community. Since a compromise cannot be found, Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash did the right thing by establishing a separate republic. I predict that in less than ten years an independent Turkish Cypriot state and an independent Greek Cypriot state will develop normal relations with each other. The international community should give Denktash's bold move a chance...
...audience, as Turkish Cypriot Leader Rauf Denktash shrewdly surmised, was far larger than the modest throng that gathered in Nicosia last week to cheer his proclamation of a new Turkish Cypriot republic on the divided Mediterranean island. It was a ringing declaration, but as soon as it was made public, Turkish Cypriot officials added an odd qualifier. The decision, they said, was not irreversible: what Denktash really had in mind was to call the world's attention to Turkish Cypriot demands, frustrated so far, for a federated Cyprus. Under the Denktash formula, equal political weight would be given...
Arafat's room to maneuver was also cramped by his dependence on Syria, which helps sustain the P.L.O. as a military force. Syrian Prime Minister Abdul-Rauf Kassem has criticized the Fahd plan as "ineffective." But Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam is known to favor it, and President Hafez Assad has yet to be convinced. Should the Syrians and the P.L.O. finally side with the Saudis, other intransigent states like Algeria would probably go along, leaving Libya the main opposition to the plan...