Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Greek military still looms as a potent ar biter of the government's ac tions, particularly in the sensitive negotiations over Cyprus. Many military men remain strongly committed to eventual enosis, and the officers may be tempted to oust the new Premier if he concedes too much to Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots...
...bloody civil war against Communist insurgents that followed-by stabilizing the drachma, bringing Greece into the Common Market as an associate member, and setting the country on a course toward industrialization. One of his proudest accomplishments was his participation in the 1960 treaty between Britain, Turkey and Greece that guaranteed the independence of Cyprus...
Still, there was concern that the fighting could erupt again. Greece charged that Turkey was continuing to land troops on the island in violation of the ceasefire. If the landings did not stop, warned the new civilian government in Athens, the country would go to war. Fears of renewed fighting were so grave that the U.N. Security Council called a special weekend session to seek a solution...
...addition to the dead and wounded, whose numbers were still being counted, Greeks were holding thousands of Cypriot prisoners, including 1,750 in the Limassol football stadium. Reportedly, hundreds of Greek P.O.W.s were taken off the island to Turkey. Both sides obviously hoped to use the prisoners as bar-gaming chips in peace negotiations that got under way last week in Geneva...
Joint Effort, derides was far less sanguine. He observed that Turkey was continuing to land reinforcements on the island in violation of the ceasefire. The landings must stop and the Greek territory be returned, he warned, before a new peace could really take effect. Otherwise, he said, "time is running out. It will be with the greatest reluctance that I will appear before the Greek people of Cyprus to invite them to fight to the last...