Word: extremist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media events that publicize exactly the choice we want to keep private. The less attention we pay to them, the smaller their forum will be--and the more they will have to resort to illegal means that will land them in jail and will also paint them as the extremist group that they are. They will have trouble persuading people to their viewpoint, and they will matter little in the future legislation of abortion...
...believe that the extremist view is held by those who are willing to tolerate the doubling of carbon dioxide in a single generation, the loss in a single lifetime of more than half the living species God put on earth, the destruction of a large percentage of the protective ozone shield in only a few decades, the loss of more than an acre of tropical rain forest every second, the addition of an entire China's worth of people every decade, the poisoning of our air and water resources, the serious erosion of our cropland. Those...
...even as the espionage game continues, Moscow and Washington are looking warily ahead to cooperation in a variety of fields. The U.S. would like to acquire information on extremist groups, such as the murderous Abu Nidal organization, once supported by communist bloc countries. The Russians could use assistance in gearing up against potential terrorist threats from increasingly militant ethnic groups in the former Soviet empire. Moscow is also in line for advice on how to operate civilian oversight of intelligence activities in a democracy, assistance that the CIA is already giving to a number of ex-Soviet bloc countries...
...P.L.O. official Atef Bseiso, 44, outside his Paris hotel. Bseiso was on a secret mission to meet with French intelligence agents to discuss security matters. The killers' efficiency led to rumors of secret-service involvement -- not only Israeli but French as well. Also suspected was Abu Nidal, the Palestinian extremist believed responsible for other P.L.O. killings, though his group denied involvement...
...consulate in Oran, Algeria, and Reuters news agency in Beirut. The Beirut caller even knew that the plane had been delayed for five hours in Cologne, and explained that was why it blew up over Canada instead of over the U.S. He said the Shi'ite Muslim extremist group planted a bomb on board to prove "our ability to strike at the Americans anywhere...