Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interim formula could be arranged that would ensure the Viet Cong continued sway over the hamlets they now control. Eventually, a solution could be worked out along the lines of the one that followed the guerrilla war in Greece, where the Communists eventually achieved limited political rights. Such a settlement is never entirely foolproof-witness the fact that the Greek army has since stepped in to strip away those rights-but there are few who would not find it preferable to several more years of a costly, bloody...
They also conceded that the settlement had enhanced Turkish prestige and plummeted Greek influence on the island to an alltime low. Said a ranking Greek diplomat in Nicosia: "Pax Hellenica has ended. It is being replaced by Pax Ottomana...
Under the settlement worked out by U.S. Presidential Envoy Cyrus Vance, last week's withdrawals will be followed by others, until Greece's 9,000-man force on the island is reduced to only 950, the number Greece is legally entitled to station there under Cyprus' independence agreements. In reciprocation, the Turks called off their invasion preparations against Cyprus and Greece and agreed to withdraw the 1,500 or so troops that they infiltrated into Cyprus in excess of their 650-man legal allotment. Shrewdly calculating that the Greek rulers lacked the support both at home...
Wary of Yogurt. Through some deft last-minute maneuvers, Archbishop Makarios, the island's bearded President, managed to sidestep some of the immediate consequences of the settlement. Under the agreement, the Turks and Greeks called on him to disband his 11,000-man Greek Cypriot National Guard and to grant wide police powers to the 4,000 U.N. peace-keeping troops stationed on Cyprus. Fearing an encroachment on Cyprus' sovereignty, Makarios replied that he wanted the Security Council to endorse the truce package before he finally acted. That could mean never-since France and the Soviet Union oppose...
...would vote for an invitation to the Vietcong to appear before a meeting of the Security Council. Goldberg's speech was billed as yet another major U.S. diplomatic concession to the enemy. It sought to prove once again that the United States is truly anxious to reach a peace settlement, and that its concerted efforts have failed only because of the intransigence of the North Vietnamese and their N.L.F. allies...