Word: turkeys
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...surprising denouement to a crisis that only hours earlier had threatened war between Greece and Turkey over the embattled island of Cyprus...
There were other welcome surprises during the week. The righting between invading Turks and Greek Cypriots that had engulfed the tiny Mediterranean is land in a bloodletting was halted in a shaky cease-fire enforced by United Na tions troops. The chance of war between Turkey and Greece - both NATO allies - diminished, though it remained a worrisome possibility. The Soviet Union resisted the temptation to make political capital from the Turkish-Greek confrontation, thus affirming the spirit of detente with the U.S. And the other NATO nations fully consulted among themselves and acted in concert to dampen the conflict...
...unexpected decision by the junta that had repressively ruled Greece since April 1967 to return the country to a civilian government. Though there had been rumbles of discontent in the military ever since the reckless Cyprus coup and especially after Greece's humiliating inability to oppose Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, experts expected nothing more than the replacement of one general by another. Or, they feared, younger ultranationalist officers bent on war against Turkey and unification of Cyprus and Greece might attempt a coup and make Greece even more militant and authoritarian. Instead, there was a mass exodus...
...most urgent of the government's tasks is to salvage Greece's pride from the wreckage of the junta's Cyprus ad ventures. For this it needs some cooperation from Turkey, especially at the Geneva talks. The Turks probably trust Caramanlis and Mavros much more than the junta be cause the two civilians have never strongly advocated enosis - unification of Greece and Cyprus. Ankara rightly suspected the junta of plotting the coup against Makarios as a first step toward eno sis. To demonstrate the new regime's reversal of policy, in the Cabinet's first...
Recent discoveries of offshore oil reserves have already set China against South Viet Nam in the South China Sea, Russia against Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk, and Greece against Turkey in the Aegean (though oil is certainly not the issue in Cyprus). Meanwhile, in all the world's major fisheries, fishermen of various nationalities are wrangling acrimoniously over catches of cod, tuna, salmon, herring, whales. Such quarrels in the past have triggered bitter diplomatic disputes, as in last year's "cod war" between Britain and Iceland and in the earlier "tuna wars" between the U.S. and Peru...