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Consummate Skill. The dilemma of Caramanlis is one of exquisite ironies. It was the arrogance of his predecessors, the Greek military dictatorship that had masterminded the overthrow of Archbishop Makarios as a move toward unification of Greece and Cyprus, that led to the Turkish invasion of the island July 20 and the fall of the inept junta in Athens. Now, if Caramanlis gives in totally to the Turks, his new government may in its turn collapse and the military-or a much less likely dictatorship of the left-may once again come back...
...Cyprus--highly uncharacteristic of the meticulous and generally extremely foresighted professor. While Kissinger appeared willing to aid the Greek junta, he didn't even make a move to ease the Turkish invasion of Cyprus once the new Greek government was installed. For some reason, the repressive Greek military dictatorship could arouse sympathy and support that the new government is unable to get from Kissinger...
...attack Turkey on the mainland through Thrace. This, however, would have been even more disastrous for the Greeks. Not only does the Turkish army have almost three tunes as many men, but the leadership and morale of the Greek army have also been crippled by seven years of a dictatorship that had purged most of the country's best officers...
...Gesture. Besides feeling that the U.S. was siding with the Turks, the Greeks were bitter over what they consider longtime American support of the corrupt military dictatorship that preceded Caramanlis. The whole imbroglio with Turkey could have been avoided, the Greeks believed, if Washington had vetoed the attempt by the Athens dictatorship to overthrow the Nicosia government and bring Cyprus into the Greek orbit, a switch Ankara obviously could not allow...
...Caramanlis and Ecevit by telephone and urged the Turks not to use further force. He later offered his offices as mediator, either in Nicosia or Washington. In a gesture to placate Greece, the U.S. pulled out Ambassador Henry J. Tasca, who was far too closely identified with the hated dictatorship during his five-year tour, and sent in Jack B. Kubisch, a skilled veteran diplomat who was serving as an Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America. At the same time, President Ford invited Caramanlis to Washington, an invitation the Premier turned down as untimely. Privately, Washington officials felt aggrieved...