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...year, has been chief adviser to the Greek army. He added: "If anyone thinks he can take these people on and not get his nose thoroughly bloodied, he is sure as hell mistaken." Lieut. General Stylianos Maniadakis, whose Greek corps lies in wait for any movement into Macedonia or Thrace, was confident. Said he: "We are ready for them. We will fight them. We will beat them...
...peasants, and farm credits are being increased. The southern cotton belt is now mechanized. An EGA agricultural mission has introduced better seed grains, better breeding stock, better farming methods. Turkish farmers eagerly accept the new techniques. Last week Ali Kumyol, 42, a heavy-set farmer from Çorlu in Thrace, proudly displayed his John Deere tractor, said it enabled him to double his wheat and barley production. "For the first time since my marriage, I can afford to keep my wife out of the fields," he said. "I never knew she could cook so well. My kids can continue their...
Cement pillboxes dot the rolling plains of Thrace; piles of stone lie by the roadsides for emergency roadblocks. From the border of Bulgaria in the west to Ararat in the east, Turkish riflemen stand guard. Almost half a million men are in the armed forces-a staggering burden for a poor country of 19 million people. Defense takes 40% of Turkey's budget...
...Communists had been cleared from the Peloponnesus, Central Greece, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace. Only 17,000 were left in the mountain strongholds of Vitsi and Grammos. Government generals sent the first units of their 65,000 U.S.-equipped troops into the Grammos sector, where the guerrillas had been expecting the main push. Five days later the government's main forces struck at Vitsi, split the Communist positions and cut off their westward retreat routes to Albania...
...Thrace-born Alexander Symeonidis wanted to study art. When his family went broke, he studied medicine instead, because it promised to pay more. A former professor of pathology at the University of Athens, and now a pathologist at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., he gets artistic satisfaction in turning out carefully stained slides, which he excitedly refers to as "beautiful...