Word: extremist
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...include the Rev. Martin Luther King among such "sound-thinking men." He said King was an extremist. "King and the Klan feed on each other," Flowers said. "Maybe King has accomplished something, but he's more of a deterrent...
...also attracted some tweedy faculty members and clean-cut non-beats - seemed to bear out a Senate Internal Security Subcommittee report issued last week. While most members of the protest movement are loyal Americans, it said, control of the movement has "clearly passed "into the hands of Communists and extremist elements who are openly sympathetic to the Viet Cong...
...chief of the government's Comibol mining enterprise declared that Catavi-Siglo Veinte was being closed "temporarily" because of "extremist agitators." But the next day, Co-Presidents Barrientos and Ovando ordered the mining complex reopened. Troops had already rooted out the troublemakers and packed 300 of them off to government colonization projects in the country's rugged north. Clearly, there was more behind the uprising than a local labor dispute. "Wages are not really important," admitted one union leader. "What we want is the overthrow of the military dictatorship...
...extremely doubtful, however, that any one of the three traditions will be given prominence to the exclusion of the others. Some startling suggestions were made at committee meetings during the year--abolishing the Ed School, for example--but none of the committee's members, according to Scheffler, is an extremist. "There was a substantial feeling that there is value in trying to bring the three interpretations under one roof, and trying to develop them in conjunction with one another," he recalls...
...Germans constantly take their own pulse, ten years ago some 30% of German voters thought power should reside in one man at the top; today only 18% still have such authoritarian longings. West Germany's press and television are strong, free, and outspokenly critical. Hardly anyone advocates extremist solutions for anything. The army bears little resemblance to its goose-stepping ancestor. It is a citizen force, and most of its members are self-conscious in what are often derided as bus-conductor uniforms; indeed, most German bus conductors look more like soldiers than the soldiers...