Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should emerge as Sadat's partner in the new quest for peace. Few would have dared predict this role for Begin last spring, when he became Israel's seventh Premier after his unexpected victory in a national election. His long-established image as an intransigent, superhawkish ultra-Zionist sent waves of concern, and even fear, throughout much of the world. The Arab press, led by Cairo, bitterly denounced him as a dangerous annexationist dreaming of a Greater Israel. Even Jimmy Carter hinted that he was concerned that Begin's election might "be a step backward toward...
Nonetheless, the Freedom of Information Act has achieved worthwhile results. The CIA, for example, was forced to reveal its top-secret MK-Ultra program of drug experimentation on humans. Ralph Nader used the act to pry out documents for his successful campaign against carcinogenic Red Dye No. 2. The Washington Post and Wall Street Journal have pressed with some success to get the investigative records of the SEC concerning almost 400 U.S. firms that have paid bribes at home or abroad. The very existence of the law causes bureaucrats to hesitate before launching actions they would not want to explain...
Reports TIME Atlanta Bureau Chief Rudolph Rauch: "Even the ultra-conservatives have got much out of Houston. They too are on the march as never before. The issues that divide the two groups are important, but the thing that binds them is their commitment to militant action. Houston taught all women that the world can be compelled to watch...
Some homosexual leaders are afraid that the excesses of the national anti-Anita campaign may cause a public backlash against the gay rights movement, and claim that this is exactly what she is seeking. "She's willingly making herself a stalking horse for the ultra-right and trying to set up homosexuals as scapegoats," contends Howard Wallace, a founder of the Coalition for Human Rights. Adds Bruce Voeller, co-executive director of the National Gay Task Force, "Gays have traditionally been the victims, not the perpetrators, of violence...
...administration, the University has taken on a cynical perspective that does not square with the spirit of openness and cooperation that prompted President Bok's decision to prepare and release specific guidelines last May regulating the relationship of Harvard faculty members with the CIA. The gravity of the MK-ULTRA issue warrants a thorough airing-out in the immediate future, given the commendable examples set by other universities in this area and the uncertainty aroused by Steiner's delays about Harvard's precise role in the CIA's mind control program...