Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consequences of U.S. intervention in Kampuchea have made a mockery of American intentions before, and they could do so again. The emergence of Pol Pot's ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge was partly a result of misguided American policy 20 years ago. Richard Nixon's secret bombing of Kampuchea in 1969 and the CIA's support for a coup by a feckless military junta the following spring contributed to the chaos in which the Khmer Rouge thrived. In 1975 Pol Pot seized power and unleashed a holocaust...
...Movemiento Todos por La Patria (M.T.P.), a leftist group committed to social change that was formed in 1986 and until now had stopped short of violence. Earlier this month M.T.P. seemed to embrace a more radical agenda, and several key figures have been linked to a defunct ultra-left-wing revolutionary army with strong Cuban and Nicaraguan connections...
...gathering called two weeks ago to nominate Vitali Korotich, editor of the pro-glasnost weekly Ogonyok, the candidate's backers fell into a fistfight with members of the ultra-right nationalist group Pamyat. Arriving at the rescheduled meeting last week, supporters of the Ogonyok editor found that militiamen had sealed the hall. Fearing that right-wingers were trying to exclude them from the meeting, Korotich supporters broke down a fence and stormed the building...
...Rabin are not eager to relinquish power for the sake of ideology. For Peres the personal element is very strong: banishment to the opposition could prove fatal to his political career. For Shamir the price could be no less high. If he fulfills the promise he made to the ultra-Orthodox, he risks making enemies of America's 6 million Jews...
...Botha government's slow reforms face a far more menacing threat from the ultra-right. Last week, in a mad act of violence, Barend Strydom, 23, an Afrikaner ex-policeman, gunned down blacks on a street in downtown Pretoria, smiling as he killed six and injured 17. Strydom belonged to the neofascist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (A.W.B.), whose members openly whip up racial feelings. Public shock led the government to ban a still more radical group, the tiny so-called B.B.B., or White Liberation Movement, as a clear warning to the A.W.B. and other avowed right-wing groups that the government...