Word: turkeys
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Face to Face. One of the President's first visitors every morning was Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. The President was most concerned about the fighting in Cyprus, which directly affected two of the U.S.'s NATO allies, Greece and Turkey, but he was also anxious to follow up on his assurances that he would pursue the Nixon Administration's foreign policy. Toward that end, Ford had lunch with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, then met with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, who cut short a vacation to return to Washington after Nixon resigned. Among other things, Ford...
Determined to get by force what it could not get at the Geneva negotiating table, Turkey last week again broke the unsteady Cyprus truce. With as much ease as a surgeon wielding a scalpel across the dusky Cypriot plain, Turkish forces supported by tanks, jets and ar tillery moved out of their previously held strongpoints around Kyrenia and Nicosia and within 40 hours crossed to the other side of the island at Famagusta, neatly taking control of the northeastern third of the island in what well may be a permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities...
...latent affinity between Turks and Greeks. We share some of the same folklore and lived under the same government for centuries. I believe in Turkish-Greek friendship. Even during the fighting we tried to say nothing to hurt the Greeks. There have been no public demonstrations against Greeks in Turkey...
Greece's first civilian Cabinet in more than seven years moved confidently last week to consolidate its power. Despite the urgent demands of the Cyprus crisis, which has brought his country to the brink of war with Turkey, new Premier Constantine Caramanlis worked methodically to erase the remnants of repression by the military junta's iron-fisted rule-what one newspaper newly freed from censorship called the "days of medieval darkness...
...Cyprus ceasefire agreement may have angered some ultra-nationalists but it may also have relaxed some of the tensions between the new government and the military, for the generals were no doubt painfully aware that it was the best that Greece could get in the face of Turkey's superior military power. The Geneva declaration was almost entirely in Turkey's favor (see story page 27), but as one civil servant in Athens observed: "The people blame the junta for the whole mess and so they know that they have to pay the price of an unfavorable bargain...