The Boston Globe, April 1st, 1987
The Balkans had an old - ashioned, pre-1914 kind of crisis last week when Greece and Turkey made menacing military gestures toward one another. The Turks sent an oil-exploration ship accompanied by warships and jet fighters into the Aegean Sea and announced it would begin searching for oil in waters near a Greek island. The Greeks replied that this would be tantamount to an invasion. For two days, both sides had their armed forces on a war footing. Scare headlines dominated the newspapers in Athens and Ankara. War did not happen because the United States put pressure on the Turks to back off. ...
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