Word: truce
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...week's end Greece and Turkey were no longer eyeball to eyeball. But the truce was still an uneasy one subject to the whims of fanatic Cypriot gunmen of both Greek and Turkish persuasion. The crisis offered a fertile ground for big-power meddling. France's President Charles de Gaulle backed the Greek Cypriot position, which made him a hero to the Greeks, while U.S. President Lyndon Johnson was being burned in effigy in Athens. The Soviet Union was also happily taking sides in a quarrel between NATO partners, and gave down-the-line support to the government...
...feud, than fierce fighting erupted once again. More than 60 Indonesian "volunteer" guerrillas launched three forays through the jungle into the Malaysian states of Sarawak and Sabah before they were driven back. Since Indonesian air force planes, along with Malaysian-based helicopters, had dropped thousands of leaflets announcing the truce, it was unclear whether the terrorists had deliberately violated the cease-fire or simply had not learned about...
Greece and Turkey immediately accepted the plan; Greek and Turkish Cypriots rejected it. Russia, ever eager to fish in troubled waters, insisted on a United Nations truce force, which Moscow hoped to control by virtue of its veto in the U.N. Security Council. Bearded Archbishop Makarios, neutralist President of Cyprus, would also prefer a U.N. mission, since he fears that a NATO contingent would lead to an actual partition of the island between Greek and Turkish communities. Nonetheless, Makarios knows well that if he rejects the Anglo-U.S. proposal, he will risk renewed savagery and possible invasion of Cyprus...
...patient (Robert Shaw), the elder of two misfit brothers. Shaw collects things-bales of newspapers, a disconnected faucet, a kitchen sink, a bud vase full of screws-and he speaks and moves with the stony detachment of a man who will never again disturb the balance of his uneasy truce with life. His goal is to build a workshed out back: "Then I'll be able to do a bit more with the house." The younger brother (Alan Bates) retains some link to the workaday world but expresses his frustration in bursts of sadistic mockery. Davies sets the brothers...
...Barry Goldwater Drive moved forward again," reported Richard T. Stout of the Chicago Daily News, "but with a knock in the motor." But there were dissenters from this view, among them U.S. News & World Report, which declared that the U.S. Senator from Arizona "remains out in front as the truce ends...