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Withering Barrage. On the ground, Turk tanks rolled out of the Turkish section of the city they had occupied since the July 20 invasion and thrust toward the suburb of Mia Milea, astride the road to Famagusta 35 miles to the east. A withering barrage of mortar and artillery fire preceded the tanks, and the native Greek forces, outgunned and outmanned, were unable to slow their advance. By early afternoon, the Turks were almost halfway to Famagusta, the island's principal port, its third largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry...
...part of the city, which is inhabited mainly by Greeks, was deserted, smoking and broken," reported TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin, who came in after the Turks. "From the wall we saw a column of twelve Turkish tanks mopping up the last resistance. A charred Greek school was pummeled by Turkish machine-gun fire. Scouts roamed the wide, tree-shaded boulevard picking out sharpshooters. Turkish soldiers who had strayed from their bases were looting abandoned houses...
Other casualties were impossible to reckon amid the confusion. The island's main psychiatric hospital, with its barracks-like buildings, was hit by Turkish jets for the second time in 27 days, and 28 more patients were wounded; 30 had been killed in the first attack. Most Nicosians who had a choice had fled the city earlier in the week when the Geneva talks appeared doomed, seeking refuge in the villages to the south and in the Troodos Mountains. Those few who had remained in the city, which once had a Greek population of 80,000, rushed...
...Turkish aim seemed to be, as Ankara claimed, not control of the whole island but of a third of it, roughly following a nearly 70-mile line from Lefka and Nicosia to Famagusta. With this "fact," as the Turks called it, accomplished, they felt that a settlement could be worked out giving the Turkish Cypriots their own geographical area in an island federation. Now the 116,000 Turkish Cypriots are interspersed in enclaves scattered among the 523,000 Greeks, who have discriminated against them and cut them off from sharing in the island's general prosperity. The Turkish area...
Flat Refusal. The Greeks have always opposed partition because they consider Cyprus part of Greece culturally, if not politically, and have hoped for eventual union. Confronted with the Turkish military presence on the island, they might conceivably have acceded, however, had the Turks not demanded so much territory. Since the Turks make up only 18% of the island's population, the Greeks believe that Ankara should have asked for no more than a fifth. Athens, however, was not even allowed to consider seriously the plan at Geneva or to come up with counterproposals. When Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros...