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...their demand for an immediate plebiscite if the British would promise the islanders eventual self-determination on a gradual but steady schedule. Once the Cypriots' right to decide their own future is recognized, said the archbishop, he would be willing to collaborate with colonial authorities in framing an interim constitution. By his acts-and omissions-in the growing dispute over Cyprus, the archbishop had proved his titular power to speak for almost all 410,000 Greek Cypriots, and, to a great extent, for mainland Greeks as well. Sir John sent Makarios' offer to London...
That sample of naval power was enough for the loyalist generals still holding out in Buenos Aires. Peron and his top followers bugged out to foreign embassies, leaving in charge an interim junta made up of 14 not-so-Peronista generals. Next day members of the junta boarded a rebel cruiser in the Plate, agreed to surrender their authority to a government headed by General Lonardi. Before handing over the capital of Argentina to the rebels, the short-lived junta happily carried out a final operation: disarming the red-armband fascist bullyboys of Perón's Alianza Popular...
Builder, Manager, Fighter. With Vargas' interim successor, President Joāo Café Filho, barred by the constitution from succeeding himself, the voters of Brazil have three main presidential candidates to choose from...
AHMED ABDUL JABBAR Chargé d'Affaires ad interim...
...Jawaharlal Nehru. The question was whether his intervention would do more harm than good. He was insisting that Red China's ultimate right to Formosa must be recognized first, but had reportedly conceded, at the urging of Commonwealth colleagues, that Formosa might be granted 20 years of interim independence under a U.N. mandate. Vastly relishing his role, Nehru told 3.000 Indian students: "Whatever you say must be at the right moment, and then it does have some effect...