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        This of course is precisely what happened, not only in 1974 but during the crises of 1964 and 1967.  The failure of the guarantor powers to enforce the status quo ante was decried by Turkish Cypriots in the 1960s and by Greek Cypriots in the 1970s.  Most of their ire was directed at Britain, a guarantor with an enormous military presence on the island.  Britain did provide peacekeepers in the 1960s (and has done so in UNFICYP), but was never willing to intervene in the most acute crises.

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