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Died. General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya, 59, Indian commander since last year of the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus, who gained widespread respect for his supervision of the Panmunjom prisoner exchange after the Korean War, then rose to commander-in-chief of the Indian army, but quit in 1959 over the pro-Red policies of Defense Minister Krishna Menon, only to return following Menon's ouster and earn the Cyprus job, which he carried out so well that the U.N. Security Council had just voted to extend his stay by three months; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus...
...Goes Grivas. Makarios spent his week gently agreeing with every visitor from the U.N. commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, to U.S. Ambassador Taylor G. Belcher, and then going his own way. He seemed unperturbed by the blast from Athens, where Greece's Premier George Papandreou accused him of launching the drive against Kokkina in violation of a firm promise not to attack without Greek knowledge and consent. When the Greek army officer commanding Makarios' National Guard resigned for the same reason. Makarios simply appointed in his place General George Grivas, the tough old resistance fighter...
...area for what the U.N. feared might be a second strike against the small Turkish Cypriot redoubt, where refugees from other villages huddled in caves. Such a step would certainly provoke another wave of Turkish retaliation from the mainland; in fact, many expect the Turks to attack again. In Thimayya's opinion, Turkey may "bomb Cyprus to save its people from starvation and make Makarios lift the blockade." In the Turkish capital Premier Ismet Inönü was desperately trying to placate hotheads at home and come to agreement with Greece abroad. The Turkish air force commander, General...
...Cyprus at week's end, cicadas droned in the midsummer heat and sentries dozed over their Bren guns in sandbagged positions on the high ridges. But the quiet was deceptive, openly characterized by U.N. Commander Thimayya as "only a breather." Without much success, he was frantically trying to get U.N. troop units sandwiched between the opposing sides at Kokkina as a way to prevent another outbreak. At the same time, he appealed to U.N. headquarters for more troops, arguing that his 6,000 men were not enough to keep the peace; but no one was volunteering. Meanwhile, the careless...
...United Nations commander, India's General Kodendera Thimayya, complained to Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios that his U.N. peacekeeping force was hamstrung by Greek Cypriot restrictions. Typically, Makarios was polite and evasive. The U.N. contingents had no intention of standing in the middle of a shooting war: indeed, their governments had threatened to fly the men home...