Word: extremist
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...visit Vins and observe his trial but were turned down. Meanwhile, the All-Union Council's plea for amnesty for all Baptist prisoners has led to the release of 50 of them. Baptist General Secretary Aleksei Bichkov, however, plans no special appeal for Vins, whom he considers an extremist with a martyr complex: "He is the most zealous of our opponents. He has called us atheists...
Americans who fondly remember the days when both Canada and the U.S. boasted about sharing "the longest undefended border in the world" may be inclined to dismiss such extremist literary nonsense out of hand. Yet the best-selling Rohmer novels are bizarrely representative of one aspect of the current Canadian mood: a rising nationalism and its inevitable corollary, a growing anti-Americanism. The Toronto Star published a story last September alleging that the U.S. had actually massed tanks and heavy artillery at the border in preparation for an invasion during the terrorist kidnapings and crisis in Quebec in October...
...goes on, with eleven murders recently committed within the space of just five days. There seems to be little chance that the proposed constitutional convention in January will produce an acceptable power-sharing formula for Ulster's divided people. Tragically, that is just what the I.R.A. and its extremist Protestant adversaries want...
...review over the FBI while it was Hoover's fiefdom. At the end of the day, Edwards declared that the COINTELPRO episode showed the need for "much stricter oversight of the FBI." Edwards feels that Congress is ready to take on the job, one made politically easier because extremist activity has abated hi recent years. Indeed, the General Accounting Office-Congress's monitoring agency-is already planning to review the domestic spying operations...
...term "totalitarian" seems absurdly unjust when used to characterize a group of people who have risked a lot to oppose a totalitarian government in Greece. The quadrupling of the membership of the Association in the last two years hardly suggests the adoption of undemocratic or extremist practices...