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Childers, Joanne
limited. NATO needs Turkey almost as much as Turkey discord in them both. So far, Moscow has tried not to needs NATO. Another argument which Ankara disre- offend Turkey yet to hold...
...If a Cyprus story...
...If governments do not use Moscow has a loud voice and a definitive veto-imposed that time it can become an explosive rather than a healon the Cyprus negotiations...
...Does anything live in him to call him back From the iron bench, the damp newspaper blanket, From the empty dejected railway station stench, The plate of charity, the bitter lack...
...His head illumined by the back porch light, His clothes the color of dusk on rainy days, He sits on the wide wood stairs in the mizzling haze In the winter-time of my old river town...
...6 September 1974: 470...
...On Cyprus, Cleri- brought stability but very much doubting that he could...
...made one thing abundantly clear: UN peace forces do not Excluded from the Geneva Conference, it would like to solve problems...
...replaced by men who would wage guerrilla war against One response of the world community at the outset the Turkish community and the Turkish army...
...sidelines-each clearly unacceptable...
...So far, Moscow has tried not to needs NATO...
...It has strongly endorsed Archbishop Greeks would be counter-productive...
...Greece is prepared Makarios as the legitimate President of Cyprus, while to swallow a great deal...
...Another argument which Ankara disre- offend Turkey yet to hold open doors to the new governgarded was that inflicting too deep a humiliation on the ment in Athens...
...preserve Cyprus as a sovereign, nonaligned state with RICHARD C. HOTTELET NATO forces withdrawn, a bone of contention between (Richard C. Hottelet, a previous contributor, is United Greece and Turkey and a perennial source of domestic Nations correspondent for CBS News...
...London and Washington are now trying to bring settlement is not found, UNFICYP would find itself the the parties to the negotiating table, where a certain international guarantor of the Turkish fait accompli, or measure of compromise might lead to a modus vivendi caught in a guerilla war, or simply floundering on the and avert the worst...
...00000000000000 JOANNE CHILDERS THE TRAMP c.1936 (Lines written on hearing my son ask, "What's A Tramp...
...des, who is by far the best the Turks will find to deal Makarios, for his part, is waiting in London for whatwith, could be swept away by Ankara's intransigence and ever may come...
...They see the authority of the UN Security Council-in which only buy time for settlement...
...Too much would put the new Britain has tipped its hat to him and Washington has government under patriotic pressure-not from the right, looked the other way, ready to accept him too if he which is bankrupt, but from the left...
...vide Kashmir and the Middle East...
...His plate mopped up he stirs himself to rise, To bleed a thank you, lurch on down the walk...
...Experience has The Soviet Union, meanwhile, follows events closely...
...He marks the gate with chalk for other souls Conversant with wet pavement and the skies...
...Since of the crisis was to enlarge UNFICYP and agree to make Cyprus is 80 percent Greek and the Turkish army's it a buffer around the zone of Turkish control on Cyprus...
...What torment or what self-indulgent pity Has brought him here in a sway-backed chill box-car, Through snowy fields, through grey mist tressel-high, To the lit back-porch of yet another city...
...performance so far has not earned it military laurels, The new function has now been overtaken by events, tothis could open a new and fateful chapter of the Cyprus gether with the original mandate of 1964...
...Its purpose would be to ing force...
Vol. 100 • September 1974 • No. 20
