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Interesting background reading

Postby eracles » Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:23 pm

Death of a Legend (grivas)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 89,00.html
This was from Feb 1974. Interesting quote:
But his image had been tarnished in recent years. The campaign of bombings, kidnapings, and assassination attempts that his revived underground organization, EOKA-B, conducted against the government of Archbishop Makarios had become increasingly unpopular among the island's inhabitants. Most Cypriot Greeks, while holding to enosis as a political ideal, had long recognized the impossibility of forcing the island's Turkish minority (20%) into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before his death, was threatening to brand him "a common criminal" unless he ceased his guerrilla activities.


There's a lot more to be found from Time magazine in googles new archive search ,some of the stuff you have to pay for but here's a link to all the free TIME magazine stuff about Cyprus
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