Word: extremist
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Moderate Shi'ites share that goal with the Israelis, but pressure from their extremist brothers prevents them from publicly admitting it. Instead, elements of Amal have joined with more radical coreligionists in the self-defeating policy of attacking the Israeli security forces. Hizballah is actively helping the P.L.O. re-establish itself on Israel's northern border. Says a P.L.O. official: "We have a very important objective in common with Hizballah: to fight Israel...
Picking up the same theme, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said, "If Justice Rehnquist is an extremist, then so is the president and so are the American people" who gave President Reagan election victories in 49 of 50 states...
...Scalia is a conservative. He is not an extremist," Kennedy said...
...record ... contains over whelming and shocking evidence ... of lifelong hostility to claims for racial justice," Kennedy said. "He's wrong on equal rights for women, wrong in support of church and state, wrong on individual freedoms protected by the First Amendment. He is an extremist, too extreme to sit as chief justice...
Democrats could also take cheer from a miserable showing by supporters of far-right Extremist Lyndon LaRouche. A preliminary survey by the Associated Press indicated that 40 or more candidates allied to LaRouche lost nominating campaigns for elective offices in New Jersey, California, Iowa and Alabama. One initially unchallenged LaRouche candidate in Orange County, Calif., was so weak that a last-minute write-in campaign for County Democratic Chairman Bruce Sumner came within 500 votes of stopping him. Sumner, who jumped into the race to halt the LaRouche onslaught, is expected to call for a recount...