Word: island
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through France's black Africa empire-the biggest European holdings on the continent-offering self-government and membership in a new French Community. Only Sekou Toure's Guinea turned him down. De Gaulle was able to put together a Community of eleven autonomous African states, plus the island republic of Madagascar. What if they wanted independence? "You have only to ask for it," said De Gaulle...
...chartered buses, walking down steep mountain paths, the Greeks of Cyprus this week practiced what their forebears invented 2,500 years ago. In the first popular elections since 1931, Cyprus got ready to become a self-governing republic in February. Under the Anglo-Greek-Turkish truce to end the island's four-year civil war, the new republic of Cyprus is to have a President elected by the island's Greek community, a Vice President chosen by its smaller Turkish community. The Turkish Cypriots, by acclamation, had already chosen that Vice President, Dr. Fazil Kuchuk...
Balloting was therefore limited to the four-fifths of the islanders belonging to the Greek community. Obvious favorite for President was Archbishop Makarios, the bearded, decisive ethnarch of Cyprus' Greeks, who achieved political martyrdom when the British exiled him to the distant Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean in 1956, and since has impressed the British and the Turkish Cypriots with his moderation in victory. But some embittered Greek Cypriots dislike Makarios, because the settlement specifically repudiated enosis (union with Greece) and left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident...
...these elections." Makarios knew he would finish well out front. The bulk of Loser Clerides' strength was Communist. In the elections for Cyprus' first Parliament, to take place within the next month, the Communists are likely to stand as the only important opposition voice on the island...
Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight...