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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...
...Fraud upon the State." The chief practical safeguard is that most Mexican divorces have the consent of both husband and wife, and few people back out later. But when third parties-disinherited children, later spouses, pension fund administrators-have an interest in the case, they may have grounds for successful court attacks...
...down on one knee and touch the floor twice with the palms of their hands, and even his closest courtiers may not speak to him unless they fall to their knees; all who pass in front of him must crouch low and snap their fingers repeatedly as a safeguard against Mwata Yambo's possible displeasure...
Prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies with dictatorships. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve, this you must retain...
...from the same man the college has so defiantly criticized a few months before--Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States. Roosevelt dropped by for a mid-winter dinner at a final club; a force of over 400 policemen, detectives, and secret service men took detailed precautions to safeguard this Democratic excursion into a land of Republicanism...