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...been able to comment on the purges. In one of its most controversial actions, the regime briefly shut down the left-wing Istanbul newspaper Cumhuriyet. Reason: the paper had reprinted a tough 1961 editorial criticizing reactionary efforts to subvert Turkey's cultural institutions. A military prosecutor charged Publisher Nadir Nadi, 75, who wrote the editorial, with "openly provoking people to commit a crime." The authorities also brought to trial Actress Isik Yenersu, who had read two poems by the Communist poet Nazim Hikmet Ran at a cultural event in Paris late last year. She was charged with "acting...
Perhaps appropriately, the one player still with the squad who can remember the nadir of Harvard hockey the took a year off) was named the MVP of this year's playoffs. Mitch Olson, who scored two key goals against New Hampshire in the semifinals, contributed the insurance goal late in the third period in last night's contest after the Crimson had nursed a one-goal lead over the Friars for 14 minutes...
What could have been the apex of Harvard wrestling history became the nadir of an up-and-down season for the Crimson Saturday afternoon, as the Big Red of Cornell defeated Harvard. 25-16, and all but clinched the Ivy League wrestling championship...
White House officials faced the absolute nadir of the confrontation on October 27, "Black Saturday," as Kennedy's assistant appointments secretary, David Powers, still calls it. The White House had received a combative letter from Khrushchev which seemed to contradict an earlier message indicating a willingness to compromise. That night, the President and Powers, long-time personal friends, shared a late dinner of chicken, in the Oval Office while Kennedy silently weighed his options...
...haunt White's heart, but it has finally loosened its grip on his political intellect. Specifically, White says, his old heroes' spending helped cause nearly uncontrollable inflation; their broken promises of a glorious international role contributed to the humiliating loss of confidence in American power that reached its nadir with the Iran hostage crisis. White pinpoints those trends--economic aimlessness and national impotence, along with the increasingly potent reign of television--as leading America to its conservative backlash of 1980. That landslide, to White, was the ultimate repudiation of impotent Democratic goodwill...