Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Amnesty Offer. Six days after E.O.K.A.'s truce offer, soldierly Sir John Harding made his response: leaflets scattered by jeep and plane offering amnesty to all E.O.K.A. men who would lay down their arms and surrender. Harding's terms: any terrorist who surrendered within three weeks was free to renounce British citizenship and emigrate to Greece; those who chose to remain in Cyprus must stand trial for any physical violence they had committed. All other crimes would be for given, but all E.O.K.A. members who stayed in Cyprus would be held prisoner "until released either by the ending...
...your June 25 story on Cyprus, you call E.O.K.A. a "terrorist" group, etc. The term "terrorist" is not a successful one. Applying your way of thinking to the history of the U.S., we have to call all Americans who fought for their independence against the British rule terrorists...
...country's rebel is apt to be another's patriot, but the word terrorist can be properly applied to those who throw bombs into crowded cafés or churches...
...Turkish Snag. Although this view seemed to confirm the British charge that the Archbishop was intimately connected with Cypriot terrorist activity, and despite misgivings about the Archbishop's reasons for not demanding a definite date for self-determination (thus giving him the opportunity to raise the issue whenever he wished), the British were in a mood to go ahead with a new offer to the Cypriots. There remained one more snag-Turkey...
...episode in a campaign dubbed Operation Lucky Alphonso, involving 5,000 British troops in the biggest military undertaking since Malaya. Object of the sweep: to catch George Grivas, the British-trained ex-Greek army officer who reportedly masterminds the E.O.K.A. terrorist underground from a mountain hideout. By week's end the marines had narrowed the squeeze to a last four square miles in the Troodos...