Word: extremist
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...these measures, there exist today two great threats to Rhodesian peace and progress: the white Rhodesian extreme rightists and the African extreme leftists. The tragedy is that world pressure is driving these two minority groups further and further apart. World pressure on the European government has allowed the African extremist to convince many more of his fellow Africans that the extremist cause is right...
When the moderate African leader in Rhodesia realistically offers his people a dollar they do not take much notice of him, for the extremist African leader is offering them a diamond. Promising the Africans everything is a prime source of the extremist' power, but there are other sources. The rising tide of African nationalism is one. Another is the fact that the majority of the Africans in Rhodesia are relatively poor in relation to the Europeans. An extremist can often convince Africans that they have everything to gain and nothing to lose by an immediate take-over of the government...
...extremist is usually more prepared to fight for his ideas and has more energy than the moderate African who is living contentedly with his family and doing his daily work. The extremist is organized. When he calls a strike, and a moderate worker disobeys him, the worker is often beaten up. This can occur when the worker returns from work, or on his way to work, or even in his home. After such treatment, he soon learns to obey the extremist...
...offshoot insists on permanent identification as a new species, it invites pruning. "Break Through!" Thus, in recent months, a host of top Republicans, from House Leader Ford to Senate Leader Everett Dirksen and Kentucky's Senator Thruston Morton, have taken pains to dissociate the G.O.P. from the extremist John Birch Society. G.O.P. National Chairman Ray Bliss read the Birchites out of the party again last week during the biennial Western...
...been "disgusted with left-wing kids in school." He had been turned down by West Point, joined the Army, was sent to paratroop school, rose to the rank of specialist third class and served a stint under General Edwin A. Walker, a "man of destiny." Later he joined one extremist group after another: the American Nazi Party, the National Renaissance Party and the Klan. He was arrested in Washington for defacing a Jewish building, and he served two years in jail in New York for inciting to riot. And all the time he never let his fellow Klansmen know that...