Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...famed war correspondent (John Randolph) has been vilified in print by his old right-wing extremist friend (Larry Gates) as a Communist-line lackey and a "drunken, immoral, yellow-bellied degenerate." An ace trial lawyer (Van Heflin) fights through to victory after the customary initial aw-shucks-not-another-case gambit. Of course there is the loyal, jittery, correspondent's wife, who wants to throw in the towel marked HIS. Of course there is the bright young legal eaglet who breaks the case wide open by being able to read an incriminating scrap of paper upside down...
Typically unyielding were his relations with the military. In July, while riding to the air base for a speech, he was assured by various military officers that he had their "full support against extremist groups in the country." He curtly told them to mind their own business. The military is apolitical and should take no stand either for or against the government, he explained. Such tactlessness was hardly likely to encourage the military to remain apolitical. From July on, the Dominican "elitist alliance" was only concerned with the timing of the coup and with the hope of quick American recognition...
Questions & Answers. When he isn't accused of being an extremist, Goldwater is usually denounced by his opponents for dealing in generalities. Last week, in an interview with U.S. News & World Report, he gave some specific answers, several of which could be called nonconformist...
...with special vehemence at the wild-about-Barry Young Republican national convention last month in San Francisco (TIME, July 5). Charged Rocky, apparently smarting a bit from Barry's well-publicized personal triumph: "Every objective observer at San Francisco has reported that the proceedings there were dominated by extremist groups carefully organized, well-financed, and operating through the tactics of ruthless, roughshod intimidation...
Never too choosy about where he got political support, "Harry" Lee first tried cooperation with the Communists, later adopted a "leftist, not extremist, nonCommunist, not antiCommunist" policy. It did not work; to save his political neck, he was forced to go for help to an old golfing partner-Abdul Rahman...