I DM Nt6TRb tlOr.1 Tb SCJRf&P 300 Oi D N*vy S44W6. -- t4" I T&M r / x f i Za" THE j Michigan Daily ' Edited and managed by Students at the University of Michigan Thursday, July 18, 1974, News -Phone :764-0552 Cyprus coup reveals international muddle 4 GAIN IN A DISTANT portion of the globe where the British Empire once 'muddled through,' a crisis erupts. Like turbulent Northern Ireland, Cyprus's recent coup has secular undertones, but unlike the Emerald Isle, prospects for an international confrontation coopting the needs of the island's inhabitants are greater. Overrun by successive waves of Greek, Egyptian, o- man, Turkish, and British colonizers who sought to con- trol this strategic corner of the Mediterranean, until its independence in 1960, the rugged, embarrassingly hospit- able islanders have had little chance to enjoy their inde- pendence, which has been marred by civil strife often instigated by outside forces. The ethnic Greeks who comprise 77 per cent of the island's inhabitants revere their Greek Orthodox clergy as spiritual as well as political leaders of all Cyprus. However, the Church continues to espouse 'enosis', unifi- cation with the Greek mainland. Blinded by thousands of years of tradition, the people comply. Moslem. Turks, 18 per cent of the islanders, have been less vocal, but when confronted by enosis, they threaten to secede. To shove enosis-motivated guerrilla warfare-which burgeoned since WWII-under the rung, the paternalis- tic powers -Britain, Greece, and Turkey - granted Cy- prus independence. The subsequent government, which proportionally represented both ethnic groups at all lev- els, headed by Archbishop Makarios III, failed as a re- sult of ignoring enosis. More civil disorder. NOT EVEN THE U.N. 1964 and 1967 interventions, nor Makarios' call for talks have answered the enosis question, though he was on the right track until recently interrupted. What is so unsettling about the recent coup is that President Makarios claims that his overthrow is a pre- lude to enosis. The fact that the coup was directed by 650 Greek officers, despite Greece's official "hands off" policy, substantiate his claim. Nevertheless, the Rebels, led by Nicos Sampson, re- main ominously silent, only announcing its new govern- ment of "national salvation." Salvation for Whom? The Greek majority? We urge Turkey, Greece, and other nations not to intervene materially or diplomatically, for the islanders must come to terms themselves with enosis and other separatist movements. Shall Cyprus be partitioned like Korea and Vietnam? Or become a Greek or Turkish col- ony. Or shall it remain a sovereign nation with these two strange ethnic bedfellows? WHATEVER THE CASE, both populations must be repre- sented in the planning. A step in the right direction would be reinstating Makarios - who has lent some sta- bility to the island in recent years-for the time being. -BILL HEENAN BATTLE LINES DRAWN Sony instructors protest inequitable hiring policy By MARK LAVELLE tars only, and double the number of men over Editor's note: This is the first in a series on the wmen. When the Union asked Sony why the Sony LL Workers' unionstrgle and 'international' corporation refuses to visit Howard University 'ssNPRECEDENTED! A Labor First! Ameri- or utilize University minority affairs offices, can Teachers' Union! SONY's Modern-day Black Student Unions, American Indian Move- 'SWEAT SHOPS"' blared the three-inch high ment (A.M.), Women, and Chicano Advocate headline of the February 1, 1974 issue of the Shu- programs, Sony LL Direct - or, Katsumi Kurita kan Ashai magazine, a national mass-circulation responded, "What's a Chicano? Sony doesn't weekly. The Japanese press seemed to relish the want any strange English!* This is the same opportunity to take up the cause of the tiny union Sony representative who has conducted job In- of American (and later Japanese) teachers who terviews on major U. S. campuses over the dared to challenge the giant multinational cor- years poration, Sony and its world-renowned president, "' _ _.. " '. "'' '' a:- ..: °"' ""^ ' Akio Morita, board member for IBM and the "Whenthe Union asked SONY Morgan-affiliated business groups. wh corpUn on o And small wonder, for the issues that the why the corporaion refuses to teachers' union was raising were virtually un- visit Howard University or uti- heard of in the history of the Japanese Labor movement. Labor experts and TV news com- lize University minority affairs mentators, while nearly unanimously forecasting offices ... and Chicano Advo- that Sony would quickly crush the bold unioniza- cate rograms . . Kurita re- tion attempt, made no effort to hide their sym- pathy for the underdog More important to the sponded, 'W hat's a Chicano? Sony LL Workers' Union members, however, S O N Y doesn't want any were the public declarations of support against strange English'!" Sony by the established Japanese Sony main corporation and subsidiary labor unions, as well ' :. ,..s''.s'c,, ."'s e a 'as >:?.._::>