Word: nuri
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coalition with the National Salvation Party (24 seats), which Demirel was forced to take into the current government. The N.S.P. leader is Necmettin Erbakan, 51, a smug hard-liner who insists that Turkey made a "concession" on Cyprus by not occupying the entire island. Commented Justice Party Deputy Nuri Bayar with a bitter smile: "We could wind up in a tug of war over a politician that neither side wants. That's the Oriental side of Turkish politics...
...rarely badgered by overzealous parent-coaches. As in the pro leagues, no time-outs are allowed; once the game begins, the players are virtually on their own. Youth acceptance of soccer has begun to make itself felt at colleges. At the University of Southern California, Soccer Coach Nuri Erturk gets at least 200 letters a year from students looking for soccer scholarships. While many of the better college teams are still stocked with foreign players, things are changing. Nine years ago, the U.C.L.A. team had 32 players from 22 countries. Now 75 per cent of the squad is American...
What followed was a suspense story with enough tension, surprise and heroism to make a palpable TV hit. One of the rebellious prisoners, for instance, was Adnan Ahmed Nuri, a Palestinian terrorist who was serving five years for hijacking and burning a British Airways VC-10 last March. Actually, the instigators were two Dutch criminals who were doing time for robbery. The fourth prisoner, an Algerian also convicted of robbery, appeared to be simply tagging along. With the Palestinian as front man, the quartet demanded, as the price for their hostages, a plane that would carry them to any Arab...
...deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet. "Who would have believed we would ever dance together again?" breathed Natalia. "An absolutely exquisite dancer," raved Nuri...
...disgusted Arab diplomat once noted that few nations can match Iraq at staging "fiestas of madmen dancing around corpses." In the 1958 revolution, they dismembered Premier Nuri as-Said's corpse. In 1963 they displayed the bullet-riddled body of President Abdul Karim Kassem on television. Last year they hanged eleven "Israeli spies" and mounted their bodies on ceremonial gallows in Baghdad's Liberation Square...