Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rith's Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which investigates extremist groups, says that Ayran Nations and the Klan have set up computer networks that can be reached through telephone numbers in Idaho, Texas and North Carolina. The computer system was established by Louis Beam, a Texas Klan leader and the Aryan Nations' "ambassador-at-larg e." It provides anti- Semitic and racist reading for hackers, as well as an "enemies" list of organizations like the A.D.L...
Pietrasinski also made a scathing indictment of Popieluszko and the Roman Catholic Church. Said he: "Father Popieluszko was filled with hatred for socialist Poland. . . . They (the defendants) were extremists just as he (Popieluszko) was an extremist. Thus two extremist attitudes met." Pietrasinski added with subtle cynicism that the aim of the four secret policemen was to discredit Poland's Communist regime. Said he: "They used military uniforms and the financial reserves of the Interior Ministry as if to confirm that terror is being used in Poland. It is known that the kidnaping caused a great resonance. The defendants' act carries...
...Israeli occupation has worn on, the extremists have gained increasing sympathy from residents of the region. Even so, the officers believe that the Shi'ite majority are largely passive in their attitudes toward Israel, and will not be a threat after withdrawal. Said Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Moshe Levy last week: "Most of the Shi'ite community, except for its extremist circles, has no reason to regard Israel as a target...
...public reaction of condemning or condoning the role of technology in a disjointed consideration of each issue creates extremist factions that confuse the context in which they fight. What all of these issues cry out for is not simplistic slogans like "Ban the Bomb" or "Right to Life," but a vast reworking of the way technological change brings itself to bear on society. The point is not to abandon the condemn/condone way of dealing with science ethics issues, but to see its inadequacy, to recognize that the rapidly changing and overwhelming new powers of science radically overturn...
Those in the Third World who perceive an oppressive and powerful American involvement in the affairs of their country are precisely those who would risk their own lives in some extremist assault on that presence. Although isolated acts of terrorism are unlikely to remedy the fundamental imbalance of power between relatively helpless groups of citizens and entrenched governments, it is the sad truth that such attacks have successfully focused attention on the claims of those who had previously gone ignored. However illegitimate and distasteful a forum, terrorism is a megaphone for the voices of the disgruntled...