Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style or spirit of Franklin Roosevelt. Kennedy feels that the narrowness of his election victory forbids any violent veering in the nation's course, and that, if he received a mandate at all, it was for moderation. He is even relieved by being free to shrug off Democratic extremist elements. The Kennedy Administration plans to present only five or six major pieces of legislation-all dealing with domestic matters and specifically including a minimum-wage increase and medical care for the aged-to the opening Congress...
...Sanoesi, counselor of the Development Minister of Indonesia, declared his country is facing a major reconnection from its war of independence. A new and inexperienced government, said, must try to satisfy the needs of people whose average yearly income is than $100, while at the same time to reconcile extremist splinter ties into a stable government...
...struggle" against the non-Whites; they refused to be stampeded by Nationalist propaganda that a second Congo situation would develop if concessions were made to the non-Whites. But the greatest fear of the anti-republicans was that the Nationalists would carry out threats, made by their extremist spokesmen, to discriminate against the English-speaking people in the new republic...
Sharpeville marks the turning point in South Africa's history. It shows that the extremist Pan Africanist Congress has successfully challenged the position of moderate Chief Albert Luthuli as leader of the Black political forces...
...dictatorship, Trujillo's totalitarian regime has within itself extremist and moderate wings, and they are engaged in Byzantine intriguing. Balaguer was a moderate, and for the moment Trujillo knowingly freed him to act. As the new president, Balaguer took office saying that his main job would be "continuing the process of democratization" and promised to seek a general amnesty for political prisoners...