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...Turkish Finance Minister Hasan Polat-kan came to hammer out the precise uses to which inflation-ridden Turkey will put the $359 million in aid it has been promised by the U.S. and the members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation. He was rewarded with the grant of an immediate $75 million to finance vitally needed imports...
Massive Boycott. Britain's "partnership" plan, introduced last June, had run into massive resistance from the Greek majority. Under it, Cyprus would get limited self-government with separated Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot legislatures; Turkey and Greece would each appoint a special representative to advise the British Governor. Turkish Cypriots, who had been holding out for partition, grudgingly accepted "partnership...
...Greek majority, charging that the plan would lead to partition, had responded by boycotting all efforts to bring them into it. In sporadic outbursts of violence, unleashed by both Greek and Turkish Cypriots, 165 people were killed...
...Foley has shaped his Times into a trimly edited, headline-splashed eight-column paper that generally has islanders choking on their breakfast. He thinks, and says, that British policy is a mess. He loudly deplores Greek terrorism for destroying all chance of peace. He blasts the island's Turkish leader for stirring up racial hatred...
...sent a personal message to Archbishop Makarios in Athens: "If this chance is not at once seized, I can foresee nothing but continuing misery for Cyprus." At week's end Makarios flatly rejected the Macmillan plan. In their shuttered houses on their pleasant island, Cypriots-both Greek and Turkish-braced themselves for a renewal of bloodletting...