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...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 to disgrace...
MOHAMMED TORAH Nadi, Fiji...
...Relaxed Approach. Contradicting most other teachers, who favor fencing flatfooted, Nadi makes his pupils raise the left heel in readiness to spring, insists that they practice before a mirror to correct "a jutting posterior." He tolerates no idle questions from pupils during lessons, describes with admiration how a stern old master taught the late great French fencer Kirchhoffer to relax. The master used to put Kirchhoffer on guard, then go away. After several minutes he would return, feel Kirchhoffer's arm, exclaim : "Your arm is tense. You will never be a fencer...
...Nadi's arrogant book is seasoned with many a pungent observation. Samples...
Soul for Sale. Nadi's greatest disappointment is that the value of fencing as combat training has so far been largely overlooked by U.S. armed forces. Convinced that "nothing could be more useful to our flyers," he tried to enlist as a Navy physical instructor after Pearl Harbor, was incredulous when the Navy declined his offer. Cries Nadi: "I would sell my soul to be allowed to take charge of physical instruction for the aviators...