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...followers of Political Extremist Lyndon LaRouche are usually found in airports distributing literature, but increasingly they are finding themselves in court as well. A federal grand jury in Boston has charged several supporters of the ultraconservative conspiracy theorist with credit-card fraud. Last week a grand jury in Loudoun County, Va., indicted 16 supporters and five groups affiliated with LaRouche, a perennial presidential candidate who lives on an estate in the county. Within hours, police teams had arrested 13 people on charges of selling unregistered securities. According to the prosecution, the groups persuaded people to lend money to the LaRouche...
Under Berri's proposal, all foreign Hostages also would be released in Lebanon b the various extremist groups holding them...
Last week the liberal watchdog group People for the American Way cautioned the national Bicentennial Commission against Skousen. It argued, in the words of David Crane, a director, "An extremist group, extremist statements and extremist dialogue tend to threaten the heritage of our Founding Fathers and Founding Mothers." Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, who has made a point of keeping politics out of the bicentennial proceedings, will be studying the matter...
...than carry out the court's order, Peretz resigned. On a radio show he then charged that Reform Jews were "leading the nation of Israel to destruction." Responded Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the North American Reform leader: "I reject his comments as a perversion of the truth. He is an extremist who wears blinders." Said another Reform spokesman, Richard Hirsch: "If Israel is the spiritual home of all Jews, we must be made to feel at home in Israel...
...weeks and months that followed, street vendors and socialites, businessmen and radicals all awoke from years of resignation to cry out their rage. Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions, associations with the government or long years of failure...