Word: rooftop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rooftop Sniping. The trouble began when Makarios sent Kuchuk 13 proposals for amending the Cyprus constitution, which gave independence to Cyprus in 1960 after four years of bloody guerrilla war between Greek Cypriot guerrillas and British troops. The constitution was a complicated document, carefully drawn to safeguard the rights of the tiny nation's 100,000 Turkish Cypriots as well as the 500,000 Greek Cypriot majority. The Turkish community got veto power over the most important legislation and was promised 30% of all government appointments. To enforce the constitution, Greece was allowed to send 850 troops to Cyprus...
...initials F.A.L.N., the Communists issued a call for a nationwide general strike. Carloads of terrorists raced through the capital's streets, strewing nails and tacks to halt traffic. Buildings were bombed; offices and a warehouse of U.S. companies were raided, banks were robbed, radio stations invaded. From rooftop hiding places, F.A.L.N. snipers fired indiscriminately on policemen, soldiers, civilians-anyone in the open. In the first volleys, a 27-year-old woman was killed, an eleven-year-old girl and a 17-month-old toddler wounded...
...illustrated it with photographs of five generals and one colonel. Our top two pictures were of Generals Minh and Don, who led last week's coup. In Saigon, TIME Correspondent Murray Gart watched the attack on Diem's palace lying flat on his belly on a rooftop less than 200 yards away. Knowing the chaos in communications that he could expect, and the delays that military censorship might impose, Gart grabbed the first available plane from Saigon to Bangkok to file his dramatic report...
...continued to air her grievances against the U.S. In Chicago she termed the U.S. withdrawal of financial aid to Viet Nam's Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...
Finally, delicately, near the end of the eleventh day, the drill bit nuzzled through the underground prison's rooftop. Now the diameter of the rescue shaft had to be widened to 18 in. Then on the 14th day, down through that shaft came two pairs of coveralls, to which parachute harnesses had been sewed. Fellin and Throne wordlessly put on the costumes, smeared each other with grease that had also been lowered to them. Throne went first, attaching his harness to a line from a hoist on the surface. A few minutes later Dave Fellin surfaced, bearded, grizzly...