Word: extremist
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland: Extremist Protestants stormed out of peace negotiations just as they began Wednesday, claiming that the chief negotiator, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, will be biased against them because he is a Catholic. The dissenting Protestants say they are also concerned because Mitchell represents President Clinton, who gave a visa to Gerry Adams, the leader of the Sinn Fein party allied with the Irish Republican Army, and hosted him at the White House earlier this year. Sinn Fein has been barred from the talks because of its refusal to reinstate a cease-fire. "They aren't gone forever...
...house mirror image of the race for the White House. Some races faithfully reflect the top contest; others are distorted versions of it. At the top of the ticket are two politicians moving to the middle who will try to depict the Other Guy as a closet extremist. Such is the situation in many states, including New Jersey, where Democratic Representative Bob Torricelli is trying to tar Representative Dick Zimmer with the Gingrich brush while Zimmer is dismissing Torricelli as an unreconstructed liberal. In North Carolina there is an ideological contest generously seasoned with revenge: Harvey Gantt is once again...
...naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were the handiwork of American political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive...
YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI Senior writer for the Jerusalem Report; author of Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist...
...Clinton vetoed a proposed abortion bill which would have served to ban late-term abortions known as "partial-birth" abortions. It is the position of the Harvard Republican Club that President Clinton's veto was both a revolting and extraordinarily callous attempt to pander to the far-left and extremist abortion proponents. This pandering serves only to protect Clinton from backlash from the left wing of the Democratic Party, rather than to protect the unborn from an egregiously gruesome form of death...