Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must combat desertification, agreed. But some deserts need to be protected from man. For instance, one of the world's most remarkable deserts: the geographically confined Namib. Its flora and fauna are unrivaled, in part because of the great diversity of ultra-psammophilous adaptations. It is a great pity, therefore, that the South West African department of water affairs is now hellbent on pumping dry the underground water resources of the Kuiseb River to satisfy the corporate hunger for uranium...
...handful of middle-aged Communist apparatchiks emerged to confront them. "We have been fighting to change things in Italy since 1944," a party militant told a bearded young demonstrator. "What other policy would you have us follow?" The student's quick answer: "A Communist policy." Said another young ultra: "You've given up fighting to change the system, you only want to save it. That's why you're trying to isolate...
...Harvard to the ever-growing list of American universities that agreed to do some of the dirtier work handled by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). University officials disclosed earlier this week that CIA financial records showed Harvard involvement in two research projects conducted under the agency's MK-ULTRA human behavior control project...
John Marks, a staff member at the Center for National Security Studies who is writing a book on the MK-ULTRA projects, said yesterday the extent of Harvard's involvement has not been fully disclosed...
Marks filed a lawsuit against the CIA earlier this year that helped trigger the recent series of disclosures about the MK-ULTRA program...