Word: extremist
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...cultured, inward-looking class who own the coastal haciendas and most of the businesses and industries of Lima. But in the '20s, a group of left-wingers at San Marcos University (which is 85 years older than Harvard) saw in the national division the makings of an extremist mass party. A silver-tongued intellectual named Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre thereupon founded a movement called Apra (from the Spanish initials of Popular Revolutionary Alliance of America...
...sirens and the arrival at the auditorium of fire engines, police squad cars, a Navy shore-patrol wagon and two ambulances, all summoned by false alarms to break up the meeting. Cracked Carter: "The only thing missing was the Coast Guard." But back in Greenville his opposition to the extremist Citizen's Councils produced more serious results. The state government, which had drawn up a contract for a $25,000 job-printing order with his paper, summarily withdrew it. "It is apparent," said Carter, "that the contract was withdrawn because of political differences...
Blundell has started the United Country Party, the first significant step toward organized political thought in colonial Kenya. Opposing him is an extremist group called the Federal Independence Party. So far, most white Kenyans refuse to join either party, preferring to keep their political opinions to themselves. Blundell counts on events to swing his way before Kenya's first two-party elections in 1956. "We have our hotheads," he says. "But the solid mass of people must have learned some lesson from the Mau Mau. They will be with us, when the time comes...
...Knowland, urged a blockade of the Chinese mainland and suggested even more drastic moves. But the President rejected the blockade proposal and promised that the United states would not be "goaded into unwise actions." His appeal to the United Nations to seek the prisoners' release was a rebuff to extremist elements in the United States and a much-needed assurance to American allies that this country still intends to support the world organization actively...
...conflicting definitions of co-existence rattle about the Congressional chambers, the debate over the desirable direction to steer American foreign policy continues unsettled. Defiantly arguing against the Administration are extremists like Senator Knowland who urge that violent action against the Soviets is America's only chance for survival. The foreign policy split is particularly aggravated by the continual juggling of the co-existence idea. Whereas the Soviets' use of the word has given it the unsavory flavor of "appeasement," Knowland has pushed further by charging that co-existence will allow Russia to swallow the free world. Unfortunately, the extremist attitude...