Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, Pompidou's ultra-Gaullist Minister of Defense, Michel Debre, did not take part in the conversations-a clear indication that France's independent stand in military matters continues unchanged. Brandt's affirmation, moreover, that "the security interests of the European Union coincide with those of the larger Atlantic alliance" received stony silence from the French. In an equally candid preanniversary appearance on West German television, Brandt had stated bluntly. "Whatever they [the French] say, they don't want U.S. troops to pull out of Europe, at least not out of Germany." In a joint statement...
...times that debt has proved costly. Until recently, the Soviet Union regarded the country as its own private vegetable patch, vineyard and Tobacco Road. Bulgarians have labored under an ultra-orthodox Communist regime to keep Russian consumers supplied with farm produce, cigarettes and heady red wine. Total economic dependency, combined with brutal political and intellectual repression, assured Bulgaria's status as the most benighted nation in the Soviet bloc...
...Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed by a cabal of ultra-right Houston businessmen, Grover did not mount an attractive campaign: he railed against revenue sharing and state taxes on personal and corporate income, and told a Houston TV interviewer that "I just don't care about the black and Chicano vote." Briscoe finally emerged as the narrow winner...
...Threepenny Opera. A fine pedigree, extanding from John Gey's 18th Century original. The Begger's Opera, to its adaptation by Bertoit Brecht and Kurt Weill in the twenties, comes through the excellent Leverett House production unbesmirched. The Old Library Theatre sees a bit of the ultra-violence as the Knife spills the opera's good Mend freely. Here comes a big, but there goes the neighborhood...
...honor that France hoped would come to her in the new Europe. More pitiful and disturbing than the film's review of the Nazi's lightning defeat of France is its exposure of the French trying to rebuild, their self-esteem by embracing Nazi doctrines of race purity and ultra-nationalism...