Word: underground
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Athens would once again recognize Makarios' right to the presidency. The Greek sources insisted that the archbishop's overthrow had been specifically ordered by General Dimitrios loannides, the strongman of the Greek military government that fell last week, loannides, it was said, also picked one-tune Cypriot Underground Fighter Sampson, 39, to succeed Makarios. But when Athens withdrew its support of him during the fighting, Sampson wisely surrendered power, presumably to return to his post as editor of the island's popular newspaper Makhi (Struggle). He had no support among Turkish Cypriots and only a limited following...
...Golden Mile, a chain of beach hotels. The last of the foreign tourists were still being evacuated when the afternoon strikes took place. In a first aid center near the beach, Greek volunteers flattened themselves on the floor. Young women bravely, if thinly, sang a song of the Greek underground that has as its theme the old Spartan saying about coming home carrying one's shield or on it. When the planes pulled up and headed back to Turkey, the waterfront was a shambles. Five hotels and many shops along Kennedy Avenue, the main hotel street, were smashed...
...Russians blamed the Nazis for these atrocities, but as an officer in the Polish underground then, I received firsthand, from Red Cross investigators on-the-spot information-later corroborated by a U.S. congressional committee-that the massacre had in fact been perpetrated by the Soviets. It is noteworthy that in the Nuremberg trials, Nazi leaders, at Soviet insistence, were accused of the murders, and despite the presence of a Soviet judge on the tribunal, they were never convicted...
...peasants, Nikos Giorgiades adopted Sampson as his surname because he thought it expressed the strength an underground fighter ought to have. A British intelligence officer who has long known him said harshly...
Kistiakowsky also said the proposed Senate resolution limiting the size of underground explosions to 150 kilotons is "meaningless" because 99 per cent of the tests the military wants could be carried out under this level...