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...Washington from the glittering pomp of his talks with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and the economic summit in Bonn was the harsh fact that his presidency is in deep trouble. His Oval Office In box was overflowing with problems: mounting inflation, the energy deadlock, the failure of tax reform, the Turkish arms embargo, the chill in relations with the Soviet Union. There was even an embarrassing furor over the discovery that White House Health Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne had written an improper drug prescription. Surveying the jumble of problems, a key presidential adviser remarked: "If only we could have stayed...
...worries seriously about Ecevit hopping into the Soviet camp. For one thing, Turkey's conservative military chiefs?behind-the-throne powers who carefully monitor the country's civilian governments?are considered to be staunchly opposed to such an idea. But some NATO analysts fear that continued neglect of Turkish needs could drive the country toward a more neutral posture. They also note that prior to his departure for the U.S. Ecevit received a precedent-shattering visit from Soviet Chief of Staff Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov...
...officials, there is another reason for being nicer to Turkey: the Turks seem more flexible than the Greeks on the Cyprus dispute. In April the Turks submitted to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim a 34-page outline of proposals for settling the future of the island. In essence, the Turkish plan calls for a "bicommunal, bizonal" federal government for Cyprus with two legislative assemblies dealing separately with the domestic affairs of their respective populations, and jointly with external affairs and defense. In addition, there would be two Presidents, one Turkish and one Greek, who would alternate as Cyprus' ceremonial chief...
Both Premier Caramanlis and Cyprus President Spyros Kyprianou have rejected the Turkish proposals as a form of de facto partition of the island. Their counterproposal demands more limited Turkish-Cypriot autonomy, a guaranteed return to their homes for the majority of Greek-Cypriot refugees, and withdrawal of 29,000 Turkish troops still on the island...
...politics as they do with economics. Says a Caramanlis aide: "Once in, we count on the European Community to back us in our disputes with Turkey." Ecevit is aware of that ploy. After the community's Foreign Ministers met last month with Ecevit, they agreed in principle to soothe Turkish fears of being isolated by Caramanlis...