Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reality farther removed from its Christian origins than at any previous period, Rabbi Gold's militant perception of the situation causes him to view Memorial Church as standing, in his words, "in the heart of this university..." A maddening juxtaposition of the past-and-present always leads to extremist conclusions. Thus for Rabbi Gold Harvard can redress past injuries to Jews only through parity of status for Judaism--a parity that extends, alas, even to the secular sphere of the Harvard calendar, for it is not enough for Harvard to provide an alternative registration day for religious Jewish students...
Laudable Objectives. Facing spreading violence-there had been at least 6,000 political murders since independence-Mujib declared a state of emergency last December. He subsequently banned extremist parties on both the left and the right, brought the press under government control, and cracked down on corruption...
...liken Solzhenitsyn's voice to that of an Old Testament prophet. I liken it to that of a dangerous extremist and warmonger. His contention that the U.S. should still be fighting Communism in Indochina is blood chilling...
...freedoms. Although the country generally seemed to be responding calmly to the emergency, Mrs. Gandhi last week showed no signs of easing her authoritarian rule. Arrests of the regime's opponents and of alleged smugglers and black marketeers continued across the subcontinent. Police seized the leaders of 26 extremist groups that had been previously banned and sealed their offices. Estimates of those detained ranged from 5,000 to 20,000. Internal censorship of information has become so tight that quotations from the works of India's national heroes-including Mohandas Gandhi and even Mrs. Gandhi's father...
...path of our forward development." To prevent her opponents from "seizing power [and] bypassing democratic methods," she argued, she had to take democracy "somewhat off the rails." So far, however, Mrs. Gandhi has provided no real evidence of a sizable conspiracy. Although police raids of the offices of extremist parties produced caches of weapons, they hardly seemed sufficient to threaten a country of 600 million. Moreover the police had sufficient authority to seize the weapons without a declaration of a state of emergency. If Mrs. Gandhi fails to give more concrete proof of a dangerous conspiracy, a significant number...