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With a wave of his hand.,, Makarios ended the food blockade of all Turkish Cypriot communities and benignly agreed not to charge excise duties on a food ship due in from the Red Crescent -Turkey's Red Cross. He went even farther, promising 1) to tear down all Greek Cypriot fortifications if the Turkish Cypriots would do the same, 2) financial aid and personal security to any refugees who wish to return to their native villages, and 3) general amnesty...
...dire appeals from the blockaded Turkish Cypriots in the coastal village of Kokkina insisted that they were near starvation. As women and children huddled in caves, their gaunt menfolk stood guard in the trenches. Then last week, down the road from Nicosia came trucks loaded with nine tons of food donated by the very man who had ordered the blockade, Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus...
Instead of cheering, the Turkish Cypriots cursed. One shouted, "We are Turks, and we will die before we accept food from Makarios!" Another grumbled that the food was probably poisoned. The convoy commander, a young Finnish lieutenant of the U.N. peacekeeping force, was appalled. "Your attitude is inhuman," he said. "There are starving babies in Kokkina." A Turk replied, "The whole blockade is inhuman. We don't want Makarios to make propaganda by giving us food. We will leave it on the road or throw it into...
Sunshine & Smiles. What Makarios was really trying to feed the Turkish Cypriots last week was a carrot, in hopeful contrast to the stick he had been applying to them for weeks. His bullying efforts to force the Turkish minority to lay down its arms and accept Greek Cypriot rule had failed, even boomeranged against him in the form of Turkey's threat to invade. Now, suddenly, the wily prelate was all sunshine and smiles. He got along famously with the new U.N. mediator, Ecuador's ex-President Galo Plaza, replacing the late Sakari Tuomioja of Finland, who died...
...himself a savvy, soft-spoken trouble-hooter in Laos in 1959, was picked by U.N. Secretary-General U Thant last March to try mediating the Cyprus dispute; following a stroke on Aug. 16, just before he was ready to present his own peace proposal to the embattled Greek and Turkish Cypriots; in Helsinki...