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Behind the Justice Department's campaign against extremist groups is the Administration's belief that they pose a serious threat to the nation's security. At least one Presidential advisor believes that "we are facing the most severe internal security threat since the Depression," the New York Times reported Sunday...
...young men strategically stationed throughout the crowded aircraft suddenly sprang to their feet. At first some passengers thought that it was only some kind of show or trick. Then the youths pulled out daggers and short, curved samurai swords. Some of them shouted, "We are the Red Army"-an extremist splinter group of the leftist Zengakuren student movement...
...current impact of the black extremist groups is mixed. Severely crippled by most of their leaders' having been killed, jailed or propelled into exile, the Black Panthers face mounting financial and organizational problems. Yet their very difficulties with the law have drawn sympathy from many fellow blacks, especially youths. The Panthers have further sensitized black communities to what they regard as police repression. Their program of providing breakfasts and tutorial help for young blacks has been both admired and copied by black students on some college campuses. But there is no indication of any significant gains in Panther membership...
...Cabinet - against Makarios' wishes. Thus his murderers could have been members of one of the pro-Makarios secret armies on the island. They could have been Greek officers in Cyprus' National Guard, still bristling over the Papadopoulos affair. Or they might have been Cypriots of the extremist National Front, which has been waging a terrorist campaign to encourage enosis, or union with Greece, rather than the in dependence that both Georgadjis and the archbishop considered more feasible...
Still Vulnerable. Suspicion immediately centered on several Greek extremist organizations that stubbornly refuse to accept any political solution for the divided island short of enosis (union with Greece). Makarios has firmly expressed his belief in independence for both the Greek Cypriot majority of 490,000 and the Turkish Cypriot minority of 110,000. Moreover, the military regime in Athens has formally abandoned the idea of enosis. Despite such opposition, extremists in recent months embarked on a new campaign of terrorism...