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More Trouble. The prelate-President returned to Cyprus amid Turkish objections and dire threats of still another assassination attempt against him by the EOKA-B Greek Cypriot underground, the terrorist group that favors enosis, or union with Greece. Declaring that he was holding out "not just an olive branch but a whole olive tree," Makarios tried to dispel fears that his return could lead to more trouble for the war-ravaged island...
...sunset, almost everyone in Athens knew the results. In Greece's first free elections since 1964, the voters placed their trust in the man who had returned from exile four months before to lead them out of the dark years of military rule and the debacle of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. In one of the most impressive mandates ever bestowed on a modern Greek leader, Premier Constantino Caramanlis, 67, and his conservative New Democracy Party swept to victory with 54% of the vote and 220 of the 300 seats in the single-chamber Parliament. "Without bloodshed, without upheavals...
...Cyprus, which Caramanlis declared "the immediate and crucial problem" facing his government. Last week there were some glimmerings of hope that progress could finally be made. After two months without an effective government, Turkey at last had one; on the very day that Greek voters gave Caramanlis his mandate, Turkish President Fahri Korutü named Sadï Irmak, 70, an appointed Senator who does not belong to any party, as Premier of a caretaker regime. Beyond that, the results of the Greek elections were well received in Ankara, which regards Caramanlis as a "reasonable and informed" man with whom...
...MAJOR film from Turkey is cause for celebration, simply because there haven't been any in the last ten years. It's sad in a way that Dry Summer (Susuz Yaz), must be the best Turkish film by default, but it has also proved its worth against some tough foreign competition--including The Pawnbroker--winning the Golden Bear award for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1964. Directed by Ismail Metin and starring and produced by Ulvi Dogan, Dry Summer is a cinema verite account of village life in Western Turkey...
Upon completion, Dry Summer was reviewed and banned by a Turkish censorship board because, as Dogan put it recently, "I'm not beautifying anything, I am showing things as they are." Dogan even had to sneak his film out of the country to show it in film festivals around the world, and when he arrived back home, he was arrested for misrepresenting his country and smuggling. Since then the Turkish government has legalized the film, adapted from a novel of the same name by Necati Cumali, a lawyer involved in the actual case upon which this story is based...