Word: underground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...water glass, the fatal bullet had been fired from one of their guns. Two of the accused, Michael Koutsoftas and Andreas Panayides, were sentenced to die; the third, an 18-year-old, was sent to jail for life. Field Marshal Sir John Harding, determined to crush the EOKA underground, rejected pleas for clemency...
Nasser's Egypt, restive under the pressures it was subjected to, decided to apply a few pressures of its own. Cairo's press blossomed out with stories of a pan-Arab underground pledged to blow up Western oil installations in the Middle East if Egypt should be attacked, and told of volunteers reportedly arriving from Uganda and French Equatorial Africa to fight for Nasser. But the week's biggest sensation was a front-page spy plot with real-life British villains...
When E.O.K.A., the Greek Cypriots' underground, recently offered to call off its campaign of terrorism, Governor Sir John Harding replied by calling for what amounted to unconditional surrender. The assassins were on the run, he said, and the only reason E.O.K.A. had called a truce was "to recover from the hard knocks it has taken in recent months." Now that the terror is back on again, British government officials admit that E.O.K.A. is really still powerful, and will take some handling...
...Documents. At this point, Colonial Secretary Alan Lenox-Boyd called a special Sunday press conference to proclaim the capture of fragments of Underground Leader George Grivas' diary (TIME, Sept. 3) showing a close association with Makarios. Lenox-Boyd now felt justified in all his darkest suspicions of Makarios. The discovery of the diaries came at an adventitious moment (a fact that stirred cynical memories of similar "discoveries" about Irish rebels at an ear lier date). The Greeks, of course, cried forgery. But even the portion released by the Colonial Office to bolster their case hardly justified the interpretations some...
Four Hundred Paintings. Dr. Lhote took four young painters to copy colored drawings in cramped caves. Like stone-age Europeans, the early people of the Sahara had their holy shrines deep underground, and they decorated them with magical drawings long after Europeans had given up the custom. The Lhote expedition copied faithfully 400 cave paintings. Ten thousand more were found but not copied...