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Makarios complained that the system of checks and balances made the administrative machinery cumbersome and inefficient. This threw Turkish Cypriots into a panic, since they well knew that the announced goal of Makarios and the Greek Cypriots is enosis, that is, eventual union with Greece. Somebody started shooting, and fighting spread rapidly along the frontier between the Greek and Turkish sectors of the capital city of Nicosia. Rooftop snipers traded shots, and teen-age terrorists slugged it out in the suburb of Traphonas, which has a mixed population...
Negotiations & Bullets. As tension mounted, schoolchildren of both communities began building street barricades. Makarios and Kuchuk drove in armored cars to police headquarters and agreed to issue joint appeals for calm. The appeal went out in Greek, but there was a delay in the Turkish transmission because no Turkish Cypriot announcer dared go near the radio station in a Greek-dominated district of Nicosia...
Restoring order was especially difficult because the island's 3,000 police, racially divided, often ended up fighting one another, and Cyprus has virtually no army. The original plan to create a 2,000-man army, 60% Greek and 40% Turkish, miscarried when Makarios and Kuchuk could not agree whether the army should be fully integrated or composed of racial units...
...morning before Christmas, Nicosia woke to the chattering of machine guns and the crack of rifles. The Greek Cypriot police were fighting it out with Turkish Cypriot civilians. In the northern section of Nicosia, 10,000 Turkish Cypriots were without water and rapidly running out of food. In his official home in one of the bastions of the city's old Venetian wall, Dr. Kuchuk held hazardous cease-fire meetings while bullets poured into his house from two sides...
...American performers is Stathis Giallelis, an Athenian discovery who earns his billing on personality alone. As the would-be immigrant, Stavros, he is all boyish, self-effacing smiles when his father sends him off to Constantinople to invest his family's meager fortune and thereby save them from Turkish persecution. Everything goes wrong. Stavros is robbed and humiliated by a roguish Turk, whom he finally murders. He slaves as a hamal, hauling back-breaking burdens on the Constantinople waterfront, only to be robbed again by a prostitute. He is shot and left for dead after falling in with...