Word: turkeys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best to make a clear distinction. Greek bitterness is not aimed against the American people, the American legislative bodies or the American press. On the contrary, we owe them gratitude. It is aimed against the American Administration, both for its support of the dictatorship and for its pro-Turkey attitude in the Cyprus drama...
...MILITARY AID TO TURKEY: President Ford's veto [of a bill cutting off arms aid for the Turks] renders the dis tinction even more clearly, because it was still another Administration decision favoring Turkey ... I tell you frankly that if this situation continues, there is danger that even the most pro-American Greeks will confuse the distinction between the American people and the American Administration...
...members. If NATO contributes positively toward the settlement of the Cyprus question-contributes satisfactorily from Greece's point of view, that is-then it would be possible for Greece to reconsider its stand toward NATO. [The alliance, Caramanlis suggested, must unanimously condemn Turkish aggression, and pressure Turkey to accept less than 40% of Cyprus...
...Greece, is that the fluidity of the situation in the Mediterranean seems to have been lost on the big powers and also on the organizations entrusted with the protection of international order and legality. They have remained indifferent to the explosiveness of the Cyprus problem. Meanwhile, the aggressiveness of Turkey went unchecked despite all principles of justice and morality. If it remains unchecked, it could create the danger of generalized conflict in the eastern Mediterranean...
...settling in Tivoli, he transplanted that gloom to a six-room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition an old player piano and often works into...