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...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...
...farther, accused Britain's ally, Greece, of fomenting much of the trouble. "It is certainly contrary to the whole spirit of NATO," he said, "that one of its members should seek by radio propaganda of the foulest character, directed from its capital month after month, to stir up terrorist activity in the territory of another. There can be no confidence, still less friendship, while this continues. "It is sometimes suggested that a NATO base on Greek soil should suffice for our needs. This is not so." There might be occasions when Britain alone or Britain and its Baghdad Pact...