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...Makarios, the President of Cyprus. No sooner had he preened the patriarchal pinfeathers and snapped his beatific smile into place than he disappeared for talks at Greek Premier George Papandreou's pine-shrouded villa near the capital. Papandreou hoped to calm down Makarios and avoid increased conflict with Tur key. After a four-hour meeting, the two leaders announced agreement on a "basic line of common policy" that included acquiescence to the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus. But it also promoted "self-determination" for the beleaguered island, suggesting a new drive for enosis (union) with Greece that could only...
Nikita Khruschev's most menacing finger was pointed at Turkey, which was obviously the place where he hoped that it would produce the most effect."The ruling circles c-f the U.S.," he told Timesman Reston, ".are virtually pushing Tur key against Syria. Turkey is even laying bare parts of her frontier with the Soviet Union ... I tell Dulles and [Ambassador Loy] Henderson that it is easy to start a war but far more difficult to stop...
Visibly shaking with nervousness and anticipation, Mathieu paced barefooted beside a huge, 25-ft.-by-7-ft. canvas stretched on the garage glower-glower ing as his assistants laid out boxes of paint tubes, a big sake bottle filled with tur pentine, bundles of brushes, and a dozen brass mixing bowls. Of a sudden, in a burst of movement, Mathieu was at work. Tearing paper cartons with his teeth to gain time, he began squeezing blobs and curlicues of violet paint straight from the tubes, and then squirted whole tubes of black pigment...
...optimistic opinion that international tensions are decreasing, " said Tur key's Premier Adnan Menderes in Bel grade last week, "is more of a feeling than a conception based on hard fact." On a four-day state visit to Yugoslavia, the Turk was doing his best to persuade the third partner in the three-ply Balkan pact (Turkey-Greece-Yugoslavia) to forget its dreams of peaceful coexistence with Rus sia and to cast its lot with the Western nations in NATO, as Greece and Turkey have done. In a succession of state banquets, his hosts listened respectfully, protested their deep...
...Turén, western Venezuela agricultural colony, armed civilians attacked a National Guard post. Repelling the charge, Guardsmen killed one rebel. In nearby Villa Bruzual, civilian revolters captured the National Guard prefecture, but the Guard retook it, killing four...