Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...promptness, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn Lloyd...
...Ivan Serov (TIME, Dec. 22). A youthful political commissar in the 1939-40 Russo-Finnish war, Shelepin rose through the Young Communist organization and served as its secretary from 1952 until he joined Khrushchev's headquarters staff last year. Too young to have been active in the police terrorist years of Yezhov and Beria, Shelepin has not yet acquired the hateful public reputation that goes with the job. Two things stand out about his appointment: 1) he is a party bureaucrat, indicating the party's continuing dominance; 2) he is Khrushchev...
...Cyprus, Sir Hugh broadcast to British civilians: "You are all in the front line now. No one should say, 'It can't happen to me.' " Then the British began to put into action the most drastic measures yet taken against EOKA, the Greek terrorist organization, and against Greek Cypriots in general...
...They're not a ration of potatoes." At a tent set up on an unused garbage dump outside the island's capital, Nicosia, British civilians lined up to receive .38 revolvers after demonstrating on a nearby target range that they could hit a life-sized tin terrorist at 15 ft. "You're unlikely to need more," one instructor explained. "The thing is always to look behind...
...after a terrorist bomb exploded under a settee in a Royal Air Force canteen, killing two airmen, the British in retaliation abruptly dismissed some 4,000 Greek Cypriot employees (but not the Turkish Cypriot employees) from all of the island's R.A.F. bases and canteens, thus throwing many innocent people out of work. If, as the British maintain, most Greek Cypriots deplore EOKA terrorism, they were being made...