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...veil, taken up short skirts and modern ideas. Polygamy was outlawed. But in Istanbul last week there sounded a still, small voice from the past. Lawyer Osman Nuri Lermioglu, a Democratic Deputy from Trabzon on the Black Sea, presented Parliament with a draft bill that would allow a Turk legally to have two wives, but only if the first wife were ill or sterile. To prove that he was no Terrible Turk with a passion for bringing back the good old days of male supremacy. Deputy Lermioglu hastily explained that he had personally cleared the bill with his own wife...
...Temperature. To leave things as they are is to leave Cyprus stalked by terror, rent by hatred, and engulfed by fear. In the past month six British civilians, nine British soldiers, 13 Greek Cypriots and three Turk Cypriot policemen have been killed-one a day since Britain, over Greek objections, began enforcing its "partnership" plan, dividing Greek and Turkish Cypriots in separate legislatures...
...modifications were all designed to temper Greek objections to any plan that might draw Turkey into governing the island, or lead to an eventual partitioning of the island between Turk and Greek Cypriots. In revising his plan, Macmillan 1) deferred his proposal for dual citizenship for Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots; 2) established separate municipal councils and houses of representatives for Greek and Turkish Cypriots, but hoped that in the future some all-in-one legislature would be formed; 3) decided that delegates from Greece and Turkey would be invited to serve as "advisers" to the British Governor instead...
Thirty years a civil servant, and ever the diplomat, 51-year-old Sir Hugh Foot, Britain's governor on Cyprus, last week turned salesman. His pitch: if the Greeks, the Turks, the Cypriots and the British themselves will all show restraint, Britain's new plan for limited self-government on the island can be made to work. Foot strolled unarmed through the tense Turkish quarter of Nicosia, appealing in person to startled Turk Cypriot shopkeepers and stallholders for calm. And to show the Greeks how ready he was to negotiate, Foot released the text of a secret offer...
...Terrific Turk...