Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate, whereas Democrats are displaying uncommon unity behind Reubin Askew, a teetotaling Presbyterian elder whose favorite "hobby," he says, is going to church. Askew accuses Kirk of "government by crisis," inept fiscal management and a 45% increase in property taxes. Kirk's counterthrusts are characteristic: Askew is an ultra liberal and a "Goody Two-shoes powder puff." The race is considered close, win a third. Democrat Dale Bumpers, a Sunday-school teacher and political neophyte who polished off former six-term Governor Orval Faubus in the primary, is conducting a low-key campaign almost as if he were certain...
...ultra-liberals are cynics, malcontents.... Responsibility ill suits them. They're much better at shutting down the university than at running...
Last week she was permitted to join her husband in Prague. Dubček, who has been under treatment in Prague's Sanops Clinic for nervous depression, met her at the airport. Both looked strained, perhaps because their worries are not yet over. Ultra-conservatives are pressing their campaign to put Dubček on trial for "crimes" committed during his leadership. Last week Radio Prague denounced him as a "renegade, traitor, revisionist and failure." For the time being, the Dubčeks reportedly plan to return to Trencin, in their native Slovakia, where Alexander's 80-year...
Just who started the battle between the swaggering guerrillas and Jordanian soldiers loyal to Hussein is unclear. The guerrillas were members of the ultra-militant Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is led by a radical Arab Christian physician named George Habash, an exponent of terror tactics against civilians, including children. In the small town of Zarka, twelve miles north of Amman, quarrels broke out between guerrillas and soldiers of the Saiqa (Thunderbolt) Regiment, a unit especially faithful to Hussein. Both sides were armed, and the confrontation quickly expanded into episodes of violence. By the time it ended...
...country for 2½ years following Peron's ouster. The kidnapers claimed to be Peronistas avenging the execution of 27 of their compatriots who were executed during Aramburu's period in office. Some observers theorize, on the other hand, that the culprits could have been either ultra-right militarists or leftist revolutionaries seeking to prevent any liaison between Ongania and the Peronista-dominated trade unions. In any case, there appeared to be little doubt that the kidnapers, whoever they might be, had carried out their threat to murder Aramburu. Early one morning they placed his watch, keys...