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- <text id=89TT2093>
- <title>
- Aug. 14, 1989: World Notes:Cyprus
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Aug. 14, 1989 The Hostage Agony
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 42
- World Notes
- CYPRUS
- Handing Back The Loot
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Last month a federal judge in Indianapolis listened to
- arguments over whether four 6th century mosaics bought in
- Switzerland by an American art dealer had actually been stolen
- from Cyprus after the island was invaded by Turkish soldiers in
- 1974. Last week Judge James E. Noland announced his decision:
- the Byzantine religious works that suburban Indianapolis art
- dealer Peg Goldberg purchased for $1.2 million last year and
- tried to sell to the Getty Museum in California, are legally the
- property of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Cyprus and must
- be returned.
- </p>
- <p> Noland accepted the argument of the church and the Greek
- Cypriot government that the works had been stripped from a
- small village church on the Turkish-controlled side of the
- island and illegally offered for sale on the international art
- market. Said Archbishop Chrysostomos of the Cyprus Church: "This
- just decision by the American court will help end the illegal
- marketing of looted archaeological items worldwide." Museum
- directors expect the decision to set an important precedent for
- regulating the antiquities market.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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