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Hampered Efforts. On much of the island, food was even more of a problem than shelter. Most food stocks happened to be stored in the Turkish-occupied area, and the Turks adamantly refused to open them to the Greeks. The Turkish military commanders severely hampered efforts of the International Red Cross and United Nations troops to give outside supplies to Greeks still behind Turkish lines. "We have personal pledges of cooperation from Turkish Premier [Bülent] Ecevit," fumed one relief official. "But the Turkish military on the island just doesn't give a sweet goddam." The Turks also...
Both Greeks and Turks feared for the safety of those who had remained in their homes during the fighting but were now trapped in territory controlled by the other side. At Aloa, the Turks showed newsmen a mass grave that held the remains, so they said, of 57 Turkish Cypriots who had been murdered by Greek extremists. They uncovered only five corpses however. The Greeks countered with their own accusations of rape and murder. According to U.N. officials, both sides were exaggerating their tales of atrocity...
...territory it apparently wanted, the wheels of diplomacy, which had been stopped by the Aug. 14 breakdown of the Geneva talks, once again began turning. Cyprus President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek leader, flew to Athens to consult with Premier Constantino Caramanlis, while Clerides' opposite number on the Turkish side, Rauf Denktaş, returned from Ankara after similar consultations with Premier Ecevit. The U.S. and Britain, meanwhile, were feverishly working behind the scenes to persuade Athens and Ankara to come to some kind of agreement...
...parties privately agreed that the 1960 constitution that had set up the independent republic was dead and that the Turks, by their military might, had won their goal: geographic independence for the Turkish minority. Under a plan proposed by Washington and London-and acceptable to Ankara-a federal government would be responsible for defense, foreign affairs and finance, but in all other matters the two communities would govern themselves in autonomous regions divided into northern and southern sectors...
...drawn? Everything hinges on the answer to that question. At the prompting of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Ecevit has promised "reasonable" concessions and says that he is willing to give up some of the ground won by his troops. The issue is complicated by the fact that the Turkish-held territory contains something like 70% of the island's wealth-producing farms, factories and tourist facilities, most of which are owned by Greeks, not to mention the island's only deepwater port, Famagusta...