Word: turkeys
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...lack of a better scapegoat, the U.S. became the target of Greek hatred, and long-smoldering Greek anti-Americanism came into the open. Most Greeks believe that the U.S. favored Turkey in the early days of the crisis, tacitly approving Turkish intervention. In retaliation, American cars were burned and American tourists abused, their cameras sometimes being snatched away and smashed on the ground. Athens' Constitution Square was the scene of occasionally violent anti-American demonstrations, and a mob of 15,000 had to be forcefully prevented from storming the U.S. airbase on Crete. The murder of Ambassador Davies seemed...
...from the basic framework that has characterized American foreign policy since World War II. This is obvious in Cyprus, where he stayed by the junta that was sympathetic to the U.S. over the Soviet Union, refused to protect a democratic government that was neutral, and jumped to side with Turkey when it seemed possible to lure them more into the U.S. camp and further from the Soviet Union. It held true in Vietnam and Korea, where Kissinger and Nixon chose to continue to prop up and arm dictatorships rather than risk the Communist appeal in democratic elections...
...Cypriot crisis will undoubtedly be the Soviet Union-at the expense of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The first weeks after the overthrow of Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios were bad enough for NATO, as it watched the deterioration of relations between two of its members, Greece and Turkey. But the alliance received a shock with Greece's withdrawal last week of its military forces from NATO'S integrated command. Greece's departure left a hole in NATO's southeast defenses against the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact...
...weakest powers in the alliance, it will be hurt tactically-more so even than when Charles de Gaulle withdrew France from the integrated command in 1966. Unlike France, Greece is part of NATO's front line, bordering directly on Yugoslavia and Bulgaria. Greece also controls, along with Turkey, the strategically important Aegean Sea, which is the Soviet navy's sole access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea. "No question that Greece has been considered a key part of the common southern defense system," says a U.S. military expert. "Just look at a map. How do you bridge...
Lost to NATO now are: the 120,000-man Greek army, equipped with modern American weapons; the 160 jet fighters of the Greek air force that were to provide more than 15% of the combat planes available to NATO'S southern command (Greece, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.); and the Greek navy's seven submarines and 13 destroyers and destroyer escorts that helped the U.S. Sixth Fleet in maintaining a balance in the eastern Mediterranean with the increasing Soviet naval presence. No longer will the movement of Greek troops be coordinated by NATO, nor will they participate...