Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like my writing about boating in a satirical way. Extremists are extremist, no matter what. They are always funny. There are people who think I am the James Watt of the animal-rights movement because I still wear leather shoes and eat the occasional McNugget. They may be heading in the right direction, but they can act pretty silly during the journey...
...army, perhaps in conjunction with the KGB. Though many top Soviets -- including Yeltsin -- dismiss this scenario, Central Committee members voiced fears of a coup to Marshall Goldman, a leading American Sovietologist, last summer. The coup menace is exacerbated by the growing strength of Russian ultra-nationalist organizations. Extremist groups like Pamyat have targeted Jews (a paranoid Jewish-Masonic conspiracy theory), "intellectuals" and "Russophobes" as scapegoats for national decline. The nationalists are at heart anti-Communist, but their appeal overlaps with a growing blue-collar nostalgia for the despotic simplicities of the Stalinist...
Since its formation in 1970, the 6,400-member Ulster Defense Regiment, the British army's largest, has lost 180 men, nearly all to terrorists of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Terrorist acts are also committed regularly by extremists on the Protestant side, most of them members of paramilitary groups like the illegal Ulster Freedom Fighters. Last week, acting on growing evidence that members of the U.D.R. were leaking confidential information on I.R.A. suspects to such Protestant extremist groups, Belfast police took the ; unprecedented step of mounting raids against a fellow security force. Some 300 members of the Royal Ulster...
...legislative elections across the country, the AMA has supported anti-abortion candidates over those who favor limitations on Medicare physician fees. This past August, the AMA contributed $5,000 to the campaign of Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who is a notorious anti-abortion extremist. Among other things, this legislator defended a criminal who had attacked an abortion clinic and sponsored a Florida bill to guarantee humane treatment of fetal remains...
First, Americans, including members of the United States military, like to see themselves as somehow above the dirty business of terrorism. A prime example of this attitude is the U.S. condemnation of the recent Israeli abduction of Sheik Abdul Karim Obeid, the leader of one of the Lebanese extremist groups holding Westerners hostage. Such a moral stance, while fine in a vacuum, fails to take the reality of the situation into consideration...