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...Quebec in 1970 was a massive show of police and military strength, ordered by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. Many government officials were given round-the-clock protection by police or soldiers, and some wealthy families spent sizable sums to hire private guards. Police were empowered to hold suspected terrorists without formal charges for 21 days. Hundreds of Quebeckers - most of them French-speaking separatists, but not terrorists - were arrested in nighttime raids. Canadians endured a state of near-martial law for two months, and polls showed that a large majority approved Trudeau's tough stand, at least...
Three months ago, not even police undercover agents in San Francisco had heard of a terrorist outfit called the Symbionese Liberation Army. Now, the bizarrely named group has burst into prominence across the U.S. by convincingly claiming responsibility for two spectacular crimes in the Bay Area...
...Cyprus city of Limassol, a tearful crowd of 50,000 took up their old battle cry, "Enosis or death!" But enosis (union with Greece) seemed farther away than ever for Cyprus. Grivas' death at 75 of a heart attack may finally have brought to an end the reckless terrorist campaign for enosis that he had led since his secret return to the island...
...become increasingly unpopular among the island's inhabitants. Most Cypriot Greeks, while holding to enosis as a political ideal, had long recognized the impossibility of forcing the island's Turkish minority (20%) into accepting union with Greece. Even the government in Athens had condemned Grivas' terrorist campaign. And in Cyprus, the general's repute had sunk so low that the House of Representatives, just before his death, was threatening to brand him "a common criminal" unless he ceased his guerrilla activities...
After Grivas' death, Archbishop Makarios proclaimed an amnesty for all imprisoned and wanted EOKA-B members; in response, Grivas' successor as head of EOKA-B ordered a stop to all terrorist activities. While not officially identified, the new commander is thought to be Major Vassilios Kourkafas, a relatively unknown Greek army officer. There remained some concern that the more fanatical elements of the EOKA-B would renew the terrorist campaign, but observers wondered how long the band of several hundred men would survive without Grivas' leadership...