GREECE: GREECE'S INDIFFERENCE IN THE CYPRUS "CONE"

Record ID: 646565

  • Title: GREECE: GREECE'S INDIFFERENCE IN THE CYPRUS "CONE"
  • Date: 16th July 1974
  • Summary: 1. Various slogans painted in the walls of various points of Athens and in the streets reading "EOKA" "Long live Liberty", "The tyrrent has fallen". 2. Newspapers in the stands with big headlines announcing the fall of Makarios. 3. Picture of the new President Nicos Sampson in the newspapers. 4. People reading newspapers. 5. Athens streets and traffic having nothin to do with the "coup". 6. Thousands of newspepers being loaded to trucks for distribution, for Athenians are eagerly looking for news. Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st July 1974 13:00
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  • Location: Athens city
  • Country: Greece
  • Reuters ID: LVA512NERKC40H2GMFGG1QE4LIG4
  • Story Text: No reaction in Greece neither by the Governmentnor the People has been noticed today, second day of the Cyprus coup. Only some pro-EOKA slogans pianted in the walls of central points of Athens by Cyprus anti-Makarios students are the only signs of reaction. No government statement and no military alert or special measures have been observed. Communications with Cyprus are still suspended. Planes flights scheduled for today have been cancelled.
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