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CAN 067 HOUSES BURN AS CONFLICT BETWEEN TURKISH AND GREEK CYPRIOTS CONTINUES
Houses burning in Cyprus and British troops patrolling as the conflict between Turkish and Greek Cypriots continues.
1. gv armoured car draped in Union Jack patrolling a village, pan to firemen at work on burning house
2. ms British...
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UPITN 13 6 80 COMMUNIST PARTY RALLY IN NICOSIA
Demonstration by the Communists to protest against President Kyprianou's policies which they say are not following the Makarios political line. Ezekias Papaioannou General Secretary of the Progressive Party of Working People (AKEL)...
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SYND 27 3 76 FORMER CYPRUS PRESIDENT NICOS SAMPSON IN COURT
Former Cyprus President Nicos Sampson appears in court, on charges of involvement in the military coup against President Makarios in 1974
1. gv exterior court house
2. ms courthouse sign
3. gv crowd and police gathered outside
4. ms...
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CAN148 OUTBREAKS OF VIOLENCE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF CYPRUS
Bomb explosions in Turkish communal centre in Nicosia. Fighting breaks out in villages in Kyrenia on Cyprus northern coast.
1. vs pan british patrol, armoured cars
2. ms old woman carries bucket of water
3. ws children running from...
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CAN161 CYPRUS STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE IN FAVOUR OF ENOSIS AS UN MEDIATOR TUMIOJA ARRIVES IN NICOSIA
United Nations appointed Finnish mediator Sakari Tuomioja arrives in cyprus. The following day, Greek Cypriot students demonstrate in favour of Enosis - the union of Greece and Cyprus.
1. ms Tuomioja leaves plane and is greeted
2. vs...
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CAN 195 CAN195 DONKEY PATROLS IN MOUNTAINS OF CYPRUS
United Nations patrols in the Kyrenian mountinas of Cyprus find that donkeys and mules are invaluable for mountain work.
1. ms soldier on horse
2. mcu soldier with United Nations flag
3. ms soldier mounting donkey, rides off
4. vs...
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SYND 27-9-69 MILITARY EXERCISE TAKES PLACE IN CYPRUS
Central Treaty Organization stage annual military excercise in Cyprus
1) nms troop carrier plane takes off
2) cu military personnel watching
3) ls flare smoking
4) ms paratroops jump from aircraft
5) ms military personnel watching...
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SYND 29/10/72 PRESIDENT OF CYPRUS, ARCHBISHOP MAKARIOS, REVIEWS MILITARY PARADE
President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, reviews military parade, in Nicosia, celebrating Greek National Day
1) President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, arrives and out of car
2) cutaway people watching from building
3) Makarios onto...
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CAN174 UN UNDER-SECRETARY BUNCHE TOURS GREEN LINE WITH GENERAL GYANI
United Nations Under-Secretary Ralph Bunche lunches with Cyprus President Archbishop Markarios, and tours the 'Green Line' with United Nations forces commander, Lieutenant-General Gyani. Meanwhile more Swedish troops arrive and are...
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SYND 13 4 76 PROTESTERS MARCH ON US EMBASSY IN NICOSIA
About three thousand angry Greek Cypriot demonstrators tore through a police barricade and tried to storm the United States embassy in Nicosia on Monday(12 April '76) but riot police charging with batons and tear gas, drove them back.
A...
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SYND 28 3 68 CYPRUS PRESIDENT MAKARIOS OPENS NEW AIRPORT
President Makarios opens million pound airport in Nicosia.
1. ws exterior Nicosia's new airport building
2. ms Makarios walks past guard of honour
3. ms crowd applauds
4. ms interior Makarios cuts tape in new building's foyer
5. ms...
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SYND 21 2 78 COMMANDOES WELCOMED HOME
Egyptian Premier Mamdouh Salem and War Minister Mohamed Gamassy welcome the commando force back from Cyprus.Brigadier General Nabil Shukri, commander of the Egyptian Army's elite commando corps has said that he ordered his troops to...
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CAN 320 ARMY RECRUITS TRAINING ON CYPRUS
Army recruits training on Cyprus
1. ms group of soldiers seated on ground, 2 assemble machine guns
2. cu officer instructs soldier on gan assembly
3. cu soldiers watching
4. ms soldiers run and fall in next to armoured vehicle
5. ms 3...
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SYND 13 4 73 WRECKED HOUSE AFTER NICOSIA BOMB EXPLOSION
A suburban house was wrecked in Nicosia, Police try to determine if the explosion was an accident or politically motivated.
1. ms police chief at scene
2. ms two people look on
3. ms Nicosia police inspector Alciviades Nicolaou at the...
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CAN 102 STUDENTS AGAINST NATO DEMONSTRATION IN NICOSIA
Greek Cypriot students demonstrate in Nicosia against NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) intervention in Cyprus.
1. vs students, posters, flags, banners, placards through the streets
2. vs posters 'We don't want to be a new...
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CAN168 IRISH TROOPS ARRIVE IN NICOSIA
Irish troops arrive in Cyprus to join United Nations peace force. Irish commander Colonel Barry and General Carver feature
1. ms soldiers disembark from cargo hold of plane
2. cu Barry and Carver talk together
3. cu Carver
4. cu badge...
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SYND 6 9 76 HIJACKED DUTCH PLANE AND HOSTAGES RELEASED
Passengers and crew from a hijacked Dutch airliner were released in Larnaca, Cyprus, after their eighteen hour ordeal.
1. vs plane on tarmac with hostages to bus
2. ws fire brigade on tarmac
3. ms bus to airport building
4. vs hostages;...
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SYND 1 8 78 APPEAL COURT HEARING OF CONVICTED PALESTINIAN MURDERERS
The two Palestinians convicted of killing Egytpian journalist Youssef El Sebai will be hanged at the end of august unless their appeal for clemency to Cypriot President Spyros Kyprianou succeeds. the two, Samir Mohamed Khadar, and Zayed...
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SYND 5-4-73 CYPRUS POLICE STATION BLOWN UP BY GUERRILLAS
Aftermath wreckage of Cyprus police station blown up by guerrillas
1) gv wrecked police station
2) mcu sign "police station"
3) various shots, people inspecting debris
4) pan across destroyed building
5) ms pan people and debris
6) ms...
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SYND 20 7 74 SCENES IN ATHENS AFTER TURKISH INVASION OF CYPRUS
Scenes in Athens after Turkish invasion of Cyprus
1. gv traffic and pedestrians on streets of Athens2. ms sign, national Bank of Greece, tilt down to street3. people outside bank 4. zoom to bank5. various shots pedestrians6. people in...
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SYND 4 9 77 NEW PRESIDENT SPYROS KYPRIANOU IN PARLIAMENT
Spyros Kyprianou was sworn in as the new President of Cyprus in succession to the late Archbishop Makarios. kyprianou gave the pledge of office at a special session of the House Of Representatives, the legislative body of which he is the...
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CAN178 CYPRUS FIGHTING
Fighting in Cyprus and United Nations peacekeepers.
1. ms of a village street
2. ms of a group of people sheltering in a doorway with a gunman nearby
3. ms of the gunman moving to shelter behind a woodpile
4. ms of gunmen looking out...
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Six fighter jets deployed from UK to Cyprus, scene at base
Britain's air force sent six Typhoon fighter jets to an airbase in Cyprus on Thursday, as British politicians debated the issue of possible military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad for its alleged use of...
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CAN 091UNITED NATIONS GENERAL VISITS HOSPITAL IN NICOSIA
United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) commander Lieutenant-General, P. S. Gyani, visits Nicosia hospital while British troops continue patrolling
1. ms sign: Nicosia General Hospital,
2. gv exterior pan along hospital building
3. United...