Speaker. I take to the well today to remind my colleagues here that we are marking the eighth anniversary of the illegal and vicious occupation of the island of Cyprus by the Government of Turkey. In 1974. more than onethird of the population200.000 peoplewere driven from their homes. deprived of their possessions and reduced to the status of refugees in their own land. More than 2.000 of them. including 8 Americans. remain missing today. What made this crime especially heinous was the fact that the invasionwhich seized 40 percent of the land and 70 percent of its wealthwas conducted with American weapons.
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