Word: extremist
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...year-old President most often seems to be a sincere, naive and at times haplessly besieged politician struggling to perform a delicate tightrope act. "He finds himself in danger all the time," says Slavko Santic, vice president of the opposition group Circle 99. "He must balance between the extremist and democratic forces in his party." If he does not, it will take far more than Holbrooke's embroidery to stitch Bosnia back together again...
...Senate Majority leader] Bob Dole (R-Kan.), my friend of thirty years, is calling me an extremist," said conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, who finished only three points behind Dole in Tuesday's Iowa primary. "If I'm an extremist, why are you pirating my ideas...
...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...