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...flashpoint where Aryan and Semite, Christian and Moslem, met in a death-embrace." The legendary island of Aphrodite gained independence from Britain a decade ago. Yet it remains an uneasy homeland to 490,000 Greek Cypriots, most of whom have traditionally espoused enosis (union with Greece), and 110,000 Turkish Cypriots, who have long favored partition of the island. In December 1963, savage fighting broke out between the two communities. In November 1967, war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus was narrowly averted by the mediation of Lyndon Johnson's emissary, former U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary Cyrus Vance...
...sticks of dynamite from an iron-pyrites mine -"enough to blow up every building in Nicosia," according to one newspaper. Soon afterward, bombs began to explode at random points throughout the island (see map), and a police station was seized temporarily. The attacks were aimed not at the Turkish Cypriot community but at the policies of Archbishop Makarios, the island's President. Makarios was re-elected in 1968 on a platform of "a feasible solution rather than the desirable solution"-meaning that he had discarded enosis as a practical goal and hoped to turn his anguished island into...
...Generation. The terrorism has placed an added strain on leaders of the Greek and Turkish communities, who have been trying vainly for 19 months to work out a formula for peaceful coexistence. For two years, Turkish Cypriots have been permitted to travel and work throughout the Greek areas. But the dozens of Turkish enclaves scattered across the island, complete with separate schools and public services, remain isolated and economically depressed. While the Greek Cypriot economy flourishes, the Turkish community is forced to support its 20,000 unemployed with annual handouts of $20 million from the Turkish government. Even more serious...
...Frenchmen whose livelihood depends on heroin are not the sort to accept substitutes. They are members of a well-organized Corsican underworld headquartered in bawdy, vice-filled Marseille. Turkish sailors smuggle the morphine base ashore and sell it to the mob's hirelings. They in turn deliver it for the final refining process to secret laboratories, which have been discovered in everything from peaceful-looking stone farmhouses to tenement kitchens. The finished heroin is sold on order to the U.S. underworld...
...Duties. In mid-December, when the Czechoslovaks sounded out Ankara about accepting Dubček, the Turkish government responded with wholehearted approval. Dubček is something of a hero to many Turks. Because of the extraordinary appeal of Dubček's brand of "Socialism with a human face," the Czechoslovaks could not send him to another Soviet-bloc nation. They apparently chose Turkey because of its established reputation for suppressing foreign political intrigues...