Word: ultranationalistic
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...Premier Takeo Miki's administration was handling the Lockheed scandal (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Miki's response was to send police to raid 28 separate offices and homes in search of evidence of wrongdoing. No. 1 target was the home of Yoshio Kodama, the 65-year-old ultranationalist who was allegedly paid more than $7 million of the $12 million of payola handed out in Japan by Lockheed. Investigators from the national tax agency, Tokyo police and the Public Prosecutor's office struck at 9 a.m. While Kodama lay ashen-faced and ailing-he is recuperating from...
...powerful yet shadowy Japanese ultranationalist, Kodama also shed much sweat for Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...government. Though there had been rumbles of discontent in the military ever since the reckless Cyprus coup and especially after Greece's humiliating inability to oppose Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, experts expected nothing more than the replacement of one general by another. Or, they feared, younger ultranationalist officers bent on war against Turkey and unification of Cyprus and Greece might attempt a coup and make Greece even more militant and authoritarian. Instead, there was a mass exodus of almost the entire military cadre from the government...
...generally acknowledged that Golda Meir's Mapai Coalition, Israel's labor party, would win the elections at the end of October and continue in power. Mapai has never failed in an election in the 25 year history of the state But it also appeared that Likud, a rightist ultranationalist faction, had a strong chance of gaining a solid foothold in the parliament, due in part to the support it hoped to receive from newly arrived immigrants, particularly Soviet Jews...
...Further downgraded his major rival, former Secret Police Chief Mieczyslaw Moczar, 57, leader of the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic "Partisan" wing of the Polish Communist Party. Moczar, who lost his post as boss of the police and army, in the Central Committee's Secretariat, has been relegated to auditor of government spending, usually a stepping stone to political oblivion...