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...Greeks claim that Turks began the latest battle by wantonly firing into the crowded market square in the Paphos suburb of Ktima, British investigators are convinced that neither side deliberately started the fighting. The incident apparently began when a Greek shopkeeper, Kyriakhos Mavros, fired a revolver at a passing Turkish postman, Cevde Mazlum, wounding him in the back and arm. Thus sparked, Turks and Greeks positioned around the market all opened fire...
...Your map of Cyprus shows that the distance between Cyprus and the nearest point on the Turkish coast is 45 miles, while the distance between Cyprus and Athens is 520 miles. This is misleading to the uninformed because-apart from the indisputable fact that Cyprus is, was and will always be a Greek island in mentality, history, tradition, religion, language, folklore, feelings and atmosphere, literally and metaphorically-the distance between Cyprus and the Greek island of Rhodes is only half the distance from Athens. ALEXIS SOLOMOS Athens >TIME'S map "Danger Point" [March 20] illustrated the proximity...
...Since independence in 1960, the Turkish minority (17%) has exercised a veto power over the island's Christian majority, the 500,000 Greek Cypriots who were denied the right of self-determination...
...only solution to the Cypriot dilemma is the repatriation of the 94,000 Turkish Cypriots to the mainland of Anatolia. THOMAS SPELIOS Elmhurst...
Known to his friends as "Poju" [boy], a reference to his youthful appearance, Tuomioja is respected for his even temper, intelligence and ability to listen. He will need all these gifts and more. The Turkish Cypriots and their mother country insist that Cyprus be partitioned or changed into a cantonal federation to give each national group its own domain. Greece refuses even to discuss partition, and will demand first of all a new constitution free of the hampering minority rights for Turkish Cypriots embedded in the 1960 document. Mediator Tuomioja hopes to complete his mission in the specified three-month...