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...letter, the King bundled his royal clan, along with Premier Constantine Kollias and the commander of the air force, aboard the two planes at Tatoi airbase and took off for the north of Greece, where the bulk of Greece's 118,000-man army is concentrated along the Turkish border. Constantine's plan, such as it was, called for assuming command of those troops and making a triumphant march southward that would scare the junta into quitting...
...young King, that moment seemed to have arrived last week. As he saw it, the junta had lost face in Greece by bowing to Turkish demands to pull out 8,000 Greek troops from Cyprus - though its willingness to compromise had undoubtedly prevented a war and an irreparable rupture in NATO...
They also conceded that the settlement had enhanced Turkish prestige and plummeted Greek influence on the island to an alltime low. Said a ranking Greek diplomat in Nicosia: "Pax Hellenica has ended. It is being replaced by Pax Ottomana...
...invasion preparations against Cyprus and Greece and agreed to withdraw the 1,500 or so troops that they infiltrated into Cyprus in excess of their 650-man legal allotment. Shrewdly calculating that the Greek rulers lacked the support both at home and abroad to stand up to a crisis, Turkish Premier Siileyman Demirel thus managed to break Greece's military hold on the island. He placed it, at least temporarily, at the mercy of the Turks, whose airbases are only four minutes' flying time from Nicosia...
Makarios still faces a radically changed situation. He is now free to stop paying lip service to enosis and get on with the course he seems to prefer anyhow: making Cyprus a strong independent country. He will have to be more considerate of the 120,000 Turkish Cypriots, who are outnumbered by the 480,000 Cypriots of Greek origin, unless he wants to face renewed invasion threats from Turkey without his Greek army support and most of the Greek officers who commanded his guard. There was, in fact, already talk in Nicosia of a new reconciliation program to allay Turk...