Word: sampson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely credible week. Within the space of five days, His Beatitude Archbishop Makarios III was driven into exile by a right-wing coup spearheaded by 650 regular Greek officers on the island to train the more than 10,000-man national guard. A notorious terrorist, Nikos Giorgiades Sampson, 39, was picked as the new President. Makarios flew off to New York City in a borrowed cassock to plead for help before the United Nations Security Council, but before the U.N. could act or the major powers could intervene, the Turks invaded...
Angry Greek Cypriots, who only days before had been fighting one another over whether to remain loyal to Makarios and maintain their country's independence or to form a union with Greece, now joined in determinedly to resist the invaders. Nikos Sampson appeared on television to declare his pride in the fighting spirit of his soldiers. "The Turkish enemy must be driven into the sea!" he cried. Prisons were emptied of fighting men, including 1,200 policemen who had supported Makarios and been jailed following Sampson's successful coup against...
Even as Makarios was airlifted to Malta and then to London on an R.A.F. Comet jet, a notoriously ruthless terrorist named Nikos Sampson was already being sworn in as President...
...Sampson, 39, who has openly bragged of killing at least a dozen men, earned his living as editor-publisher of the Nicosia newspaper Makhi (Struggle), one of the largest on the island. He was one of about two dozen powerful right-wing "warlords" who maintained small private armies for attacks on Turkish enclaves. But he was politically unsophisticated and suspected of being chosen by the Greek junta to become President because he would be a willing mouthpiece for Athens...
Despite U.S. inaction and the State Department's feigned ignorance, supporters of Makarios continue to resist the illegal government of Nicos Sampson. Makarios, who was reelected in 1968 with 95 per cent of the popular vote and who faced no opposition in his last election, is now seeking world support through the United Nations. The United States is obliged by morality to support Makarios in the U.N., but with or without the United States, the United Nations must assist Makarios in his fight to regain his rightful position...