Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sabotage Chile's inroads into the U.S. market. It was the U.S. Government, pressuring Pinochet to turn over the military men accused of ordering the 1976 murder of ex-Ambassador to Washington Minister Orlando Letelier in Washington. It was the caller in Chile who identified himself as an Israeli ultra-nationalist protesting the U.S.-P.L.O. talks. For someone merely interested in having strawberries on his cornflakes, the three-continent skein of commerce and terrorism was growing absurd...
Unprecedented as they were, the talks between El Salvador's rebels and its political parties, including the ultra-right ARENA, ended near Mexico City last week without a breakthrough. Yet in offering to lay down their arms and join "the political life of the country" in exchange for military reforms and a six-month delay in the presidential elections scheduled for March 19, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) clearly scored a coup. By advancing a negotiable proposal, the rebels managed to put the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government -- and especially the army -- on the defensive...
Wurman's prescriptions are sound enough: be a good listener, be a contrarian, avoid gratuitous precision, avoid cliches. He also makes some more or less fresh points: that all information is inherently selective and subjective, and that the mind is not an ultra-complicated computer but a place full of unprogrammable and meaningful lapses, quirks and non sequiturs. Yet as he approvingly predicts the proliferation of directories of directories and a new Secretary of Understanding in the Cabinet, Wurman seems to be suffering from Information Giddiness...
...ULTRA RICH by Vance Packard...
...unexpected muscle of the extreme right set off alarm bells throughout West Germany, where the Nazi legacy continues to torment the national psyche. Within hours of learning the ultra-rightists were to be seated in the legislature, 10,000 West Germans descended on the city hall, chanting "Nazis out!" and "Ban the fascists!" Over the next few days, the protests continued...