Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, Grivas was tempted. He began talking about making Greece a respected power, no longer "a corpse on which everyone is committing rape." He spoke mysteriously of wanting "a dozen butcher hooks to hang a dozen capitalists." He grumbled that Archbishop Makarios was not consulting him about events in Cyprus. Stunned Greek Cypriots began getting anonymous letters denouncing the archbishop as a deserter. Grivas now rejects the Anglo-Greco-Turkish truce agreements entirely, disclosed that he has sent a secret circular advising his former EOKA terrorist lieutenants that the settlement was "against the best interests of the Greek Cypriot people...
...comparing Russia in the time of Stalin and under the present regime, Elliott agreed that the country "has relaxed greatly" since then. During a previous trip to the U.S.S.R., Elliott spoke with Stalin. In light of his recent trip, Elliott says, "the people still look overburdened, but they showed their own genuine desire for friendship...
...speech for what he saw as an unprecedented opportunity to speak plainly about Soviet-American relations. He sweated his first draft of 5,000 words down to 2,000 to fit into half an hour, with another 30 minutes' time for translation. At his side as he spoke was his own interpreter, the U.S. State Department's Alexander Akalovsky, charged with translating in the most effective way possible-thought by thought, but never more than a paragraph at a time-into Russian...
Vinigi Grottanelli, Italian anthropologist, and Maria Grendi, of Florence's II Ponte, spoke on "Perspective on Italy," in the second half of the program...
Class Dismissed. Even as Kassem spoke, the Iraqi army was quelling bloody street fighting between Turks and Kurds in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk to the north. Before the rioting was over, some 30 Iraqi were dead, 100 wounded, and large numbers of soldiers had deserted their units to help out the pro-Communist Kurds. Alarmed by the defections, Kassem arrested six officers and 250 men, and sorrowfully took a more painful step. He ordered 800 reserve officers-an entire graduating class commissioned by Kassem himself last April-out of uniform and back to civilian life. The reason: they...