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| | Spyros Kyprianou | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | Spyros Kyprianou, who has died of cancer aged 69, was the president of Cyprus for 11 years and the man who chose, twice, to pass over the opportunity of reunifying the island when its estranged Greek and Turkish communities came the closest ever to making peace. |
 | | Kyprianou, who was born in the seaside town of Limassol, belonged to the generation who first openly opposed British rule - echoed on the ground by the guerrillas of Eoka. |
 | | In 1996, clearly revived, Kyprianou was elected president of the house of representatives for a second time, leaving the post when parliament was dissolved on the eve of general elections last year. |
| www.guardian.co.uk /cyprus/story/0,11551,667027,00.html (818 words) |
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