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...protect the minority of 120,000 Turkish Cypriots. The Turkish forces, however, then proceeded to partition Cyprus. They occupied 40% of the island, centered on the industrialized north, where virtually all Turkish Cypriots now live. Nearly 200,000 Greek Cypriots were forced to flee, joining their 320,000 ethnic brethren in the south. Blaming the U.S. for supporting the hated junta, which collapsed after the Cyprus coup, and for failing to halt the Turkish invasion, Greece's Constantine Caramanlis severed his country's military connection with NATO...
...same velvet-gloved approach characterizes his conduct of foreign affairs. In the Arab world, the Saudis are resented by some of their Islamic brethren as nouveau riche desert barbarians. But Fahd is on speaking terms with almost every leader (one notable exception: Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, who refuses to deal with him). On the theory that Saudi Arabia's first line of defense is diplomatic, he avoids quarrels even with Arab radicals, preferring to build as broad a range of contacts as he can. In the interests of preserving Arab unity, he has mediated between leftist Algeria and royalist Morocco...
...Estaing, and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, who had been Premier himself before he quit to reorganize the Gaullist party. What was once anticipated to be a clear-cut duel between left and right in the March parliamentary elections had degenerated to a four-sided political brawl. Unlike their Italian brethren, who were surging forward, France's Communists were spewing gall...
Such a career would have been impossible for a Latin Protestant until recently, given the Roman Catholic church's Latin American territorial imperative. But Palau, 42, began his preach ing travels as the Second Vatican Council was deciding that Protestants were not heretics but just "separated brethren." Now even Latin bishops urge their faithful to attend his rallies...
...those intrastate consumers who are paying much more than their interstate brethren and have seen prices escalate drastically, gas bills are an irritating burden. For at least a few, the costs have become intolerable. This is one reason why, during last winter's gas shortage in the North, Southerners flaunted bumper stickers reading: LET THE YANKEE BASTARDS FREEZE. The town of Crystal City, Texas, is not a typical case-but it is an instructive one. For more than two weeks, the 8,000 citizens of Crystal City have been doing without natural gas. It was cut off after...