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Three years ago, just at the height of an election campaign, a handsome young Moslem hodja named Fevzi Boyar arrived in the western Turkish town of Odemis. Like most of Turkey's Moslem divines, Hodja Boyar took a dim view of the secular government established by the late, great Kemal Ataturk,* rejoiced that Premier Adnan Menderes and his Democratic Party had at long last restored religious instruction in Turkey's schools and even raised priestly salaries...
...strong were Hodja Boyar's feelings, in fact, that one Friday evening after prayers he incautiously told worshipers at the Odemis mosque: "All the devout should attend the Democratic Party meeting which will be held day after tomorrow. Those who do not attend may be classed with the infidels...
Forgiveness. Unhappily for Hodja Boyar, some of the Odemis faithful were Republicans, and in no time at all they had the young priest haled into court on the charge that he had violated a Turkish law forbidding religious participation in politics. The Menderes government, earnestly wooing the hard-shell rural Moslem vote, did its best for the hodja. When the court of first instance found him guilty and sentenced him to ten months in jail, the public prosecutor, in a curious performance, tried to get the Court of Appeals to overturn the conviction. And when that failed, the prosecutor appealed...
Beginning in 1598, Russia came upon a "Time of Troubles" that lasted well into the next century. After the death of Ivan the Terrible's only heir, the boyar nobles chose Boris Godunov to be the next Tsar. But Boris' hesitation and uncertainty soon gave rise to the rumor that he had killed Ivan's younger brother, Dmitri, to insure his own succession. After seven years a pretender appeared, calling himself Dmitri. Aided by the continued unrest of the boyars and peasants and by a Polish army, this false Dmitri managed to defeat Boris Godunov and seize the throne before...
...audience was concerned on opening night, Balanchine could have stood stock-still in his red Boyar costume and brought the house down. But he didn't. Taking their turns at the swooping, heel-clicking runs with Mazurka's three other couples, Balanchine and his partner, Vida Brown, were the most spirited of the lot-even though he stood by between runs frankly panting. When the three-minute dance was over, City Center theater rocked with cries of "encore" and "Balanchine." Said Balanchine, who will dance the part once more this week: "You have to do little novelties...