Word: extremist
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Progress-minded Iranians-foremost among them the Shah-have long tried to modernize and Westernize Iran. These efforts are resisted by both the Communists and fanatical Moslems. The Shah himself last week described this as "an unholy alliance between two extremist wings, black reactionaries and unpatriotic, destructive Reds...
...right blueprint. He sent troops into the highlands to restore law and order, then enacted a sensible land-reform bill that will provide land for the landless without destroying the big, productive estates on which the country's agriculture depends (TIME, July 3). Throughout Peru, police rounded up extremist troublemakers to make it plain that despite some Communist support in the elections, Belaúnde would tolerate no Red-made unrest. Though his Action Popular party and its political allies held only a minority in Congress, Belaúnde cajoled his opponents into grudging cooperation, won passage...
...unmistakable repudiation of extremism." This suggests that what you mean, by "extremism," is the set of political ideas and policy recommendations supported by Senator Goldwater and by such conservative spokesmen as William Buckley. You later use the term "Radical Right" as though "Radical Rightist" were synonymous with "Extremist...
...were also synonymous with "John Birch Society," "Christian Crusade," and so forth. You refer to "the techniques of distortion and innuendo used by the radical right to question the loyalty of many patriotic Americans." I don't see how your approach differs from the distortion practiced by some hypothetical extremist writing that "The American left was united against Senator Goldwater. Prominent left wing groups such as the Communist Party and the Socialist Workers Party were especially vehement. The ways in which the left is trying to convert America to a Communist state are ..." That hypothetical extremist would have precisely...
...former President Betancourt of Venezuela, Premier Ben Bella of Algeria, former President Paz Estenssoro of Bolivia, and President Sukarno of Indonesia as Communists supported by the U.S. "I ask myself," he said, "'Were we fooled, or was it treason?' It's enough to make you become a right-wing extremist...