Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like students nationwide, Harvard activists have taken many of their lessons from, the experience of the civil rights movement, and one of the most notable legacies has been the mass demonstration. Once the talk of extremist political agitators and labor unions, "rally" and "strike" have becoem part of the standard vocabulary of most Harvard undergraduates...
...wounded, including the driver, who still managed to speed Adams to the hospital. At week's end the Sinn Fein leader appeared to be out of danger. Police arrested three of his alleged attackers barely 300 yards from the scene of the crime. The Ulster Freedom Fighters, an extremist Protestant paramilitary group, later claimed responsibility for the attack...
...HOPE RESTS, albeit precariously, with Duarte. True, rumors abound that a Duarte victory would prompt a coup by the extremist parts of the army, who view Duarte as a dyed-in-the-wool Communist. But most sections of the armed forces will move probably regard a Duarte government at the surest way to keep the dollars coming...
...however, is increasingly endangered by a wave of religious fundamentalism washing through the Shi'ite community. In June of 1982, an aide to Berri, Hussein Musawi, broke away to form a radical splinter group, the Islamic Amal. Musawi has since forged close links with Islamic Jihad, the Muslim extremist group that claimed responsibility for the attacks on the U.S. and French compounds last October, and the murder of Beirut's American University President Malcolm Kerr last month. Within the mainstream Amal, young Shi'ites have attacked occupying Israeli troops in southern Lebanon with the encouragement...
...Aubuisson's populist rhetoric contrasted sharply with his reputation as a right-wing extremist. The boyish-looking onetime Salvadoran police major, now 40, has consistently tried to delay implementation of U.S.-sponsored efforts at land reform in El Salvador. Last November, D'Aubuisson was refused an entry visa to the U.S., a rebuff linked to his alleged ties to the country's nefarious right-wing death squads. For the present, however, he wishes to appear a man of the people, and is running hard in a long-awaited presidential-election campaign that is crucial both...