Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to continue for long to convince you that the Republicans' extremist agenda is tragic news for young people. The original Republican plan to balance the budget included $18 billion in cuts from student aid. Democrats agree that we must balance the budget, and it is fair to expect a wide range of people to share the burden. But cutting student aid so drastically at a time when skyrocketing tuition costs make it increasingly impossible for families to pay for their children's education is the cruelest way to make ends meet. Newt Gingrich calls what he is trying...
Reacting quickly to the shooting death of a black man and woman in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the arrest of three white Fort Bragg soldiers, two of whom authorities have identified as skinheads, the Army ordered a sweeping investigation into the extent of extremist activities among its troops...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a rightwing extremist was not intended as a symbolic act. Yigal Amir meant quite simply to wipe out the leader of a political party and a political process he despised. And that is what...
...shoot Rabin at point-blank range, so close, one witness said, that "Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year-old Raviv...
...that all must deplore. By the same measure, however, we must not lose our sense of fairness and responsibility. As much as we condemn Rabin's assassination, there should be no dilution of our indictment of the policies of the current Israeli government. We are not responsible for the extremist rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum. If rhetoric of this sort provoked this deed of violence, similar rhetoric or even coolly calculated policies are equally responsible for neglecting and weakening the security of many Jews in Gaza and elsewhere. Despite Rabin's apparent sincerity in believing the Oslo...