Word: extremist
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...strategy. The President's aides will keep reminding voters this summer about the Californian's more outrageous statements, like his proposal that the U.S. blockade Cuba in retaliation against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Then, come fall, Carter himself will pound away at Reagan as a dangerous extremist...
Fort Wayne police continued to question black leaders, as well as Ku Klux Klansmen and local members of other extremist groups in an effort to turn up leads; officers even used hypnosis in an unsuccessful attempt to sharpen the memory of a man who reported seeing a parked car just off Interstate 69 at the time of the shooting but could recall little else about...
...bloodshed has intensified. Jewish settlers on the West Bank, who constitute about 2% of the population of the region (excluding East Jerusalem), have stepped up their demands for the support of the Israeli authorities, and the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been eager to oblige. When extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish student was killed by a sniper...
...squatters in Hebron are followers of Miriam's husband, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, a leader of the Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful) movement. Levinger, who lives in Qiryat Arba, spearheads the extremist drive to populate the West Bank with Jewish settlers. He and his followers believe it is the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in the land of biblical Israel...
...Israelis also did little to help the peace process with the selection of their new Foreign Minister to succeed Moshe Dayan, who resigned in October. The choice: Knesset Speaker Yitzhak Shamir, 64, a leader of the extremist Stern Gang during the struggle for Israel's independence, and a very determined hawk. Shamir abstained from voting on both the Camp David accords and the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty when they came before the Knesset for approval. One opposition spokesman charged in parliament that it was "the height of absurdity" to name a foreign policy spokesman opposed to his government...