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...next day, Sandman, at least, saw little benefit in pur suing the fight over specificity. "The argument was exhausted yesterday," he conceded to the committee, then withdrew his other eight motions to strike portions of the article under consideration. But now, having been harassed for their failure to detail each general complaint against Nixon, the Democrats were more than ready. They turned the tables, introducing motions to strike paragraphs as a means of debating the facts behind each charge...
...presidency. The Greek sources insisted that the archbishop's overthrow had been specifically ordered by General Dimitrios loannides, the strongman of the Greek military government that fell last week, loannides, it was said, also picked one-tune Cypriot Underground Fighter Sampson, 39, to succeed Makarios. But when Athens withdrew its support of him during the fighting, Sampson wisely surrendered power, presumably to return to his post as editor of the island's popular newspaper Makhi (Struggle). He had no support among Turkish Cypriots and only a limited following among fellow Greek Cypriots...
Justice Powell, a former chairman of the Richmond school board, withdrew from that case. His vote in the Detroit decision last week effectively broke the pattern of steadily expanding antisegregation efforts that the court had woven in decisions over the past 20 years...
...killing one Greek Cypriot soldier and fatally wounding a second. The Turks continued to shell the hotel roof intermittently. None of the hundreds of journalists and guests crowding into the lower floors were injured by the Turkish firing. Later, when the Greeks removed their guns from the hotel and withdrew to the patio, they were loudly cheered by the much relieved newsmen and guests...
Makarios, who was elected President of the new republic, resisted giving Turks enough high positions in the government, with the result that battles constantly erupted between the two communities. Frustrated, the Turks withdrew from the Cabinet and legislature at the end of 1963. Several months later, fighting between Turks and Greeks became so fierce that United Nations troops were sent in to keep the two sides separated. Ever since, a U.N. force of about 2,000 men has been stationed on the island to police the borders between Greek and Turk enclaves. But despite the U.N. troops, fighting between...