Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ISSAM SARTAWI, one of the few moderate voices left in the ranks of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was shot to death in the lobby of a Portuguese hotel last week, the victim of an extremist assassination plot. Gloating over their gruesome triumph, the conspirators, based in Damascus, told the press that "it is our pleasure to Communicate to you our success in implementing the death sentence towards a criminal and a traitor." Sartawi died because he had the guts (or perhaps the foolhardiness) to suggest that his organization recognize and come to grips with a political entity that will always...
...what? Because the West Bank lies at the epicenter of Arab-Israeli tensions, both sides charged that the "epidemic" was politically based. Arab leaders maintained that Israeli authorities, or perhaps extremist Jewish settlers in the West Bank, had poisoned the schoolgirls, hoping to intimidate the Palestinians and eventually drive them out of the West Bank. Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, declared that it was all part of a "planned and systematic crime against our people." Israeli officials, stung by such accusations, charged that the Palestinians were exaggerating the seriousness of the illness for political effect. Later...
Watt apparently wanted to portray environmentalists as subversive extremists so that his own rapacious policies would seem moderate by comparison. A Harris survey in the same issue of Business Week, however, showed that Americans overwhelmingly support tighter environmental regulations, despite their costs. The simple truth is that Watt himself is the extremist, concern for the environment has earned a firm position within the mainstream of American political opinion. By contrast. What's own recent shenanigans in Washington--such as revoking "protected" status for thousands of acres of land in the Midwest while Congress was in recess--betray a dangerous distregard...
...magistrate investigating the papal plot, must come to a decision on Antonov's alibis. It may hinge on other evidence he is gathering. West Germany informed Martella last week that it had agreed to his request for the extradition of Musa Serdar Çelebi, a right-wing Turkish extremist whom Magistrate Martella has accused of complicity in Agca's crime. Martella also went to Munich to interview another Turk, Atalai Saral, for the investigation. Said Martella of his meeting with Saral: "Very interesting...
...Corporation, of course, has consistently dismissed arguments for divestiture--on the grounds that it is backed only by extremists and that it could foreclose University leverage on the company in question. In this case, it would do well to listen to ACSR alumni member Herbert P. Gleason '50. Gleason, no extremist, recently said that there is "no possible justification for making money out of tobacco." The Corporation should also realize that its chances of persuading Morris to abandon cigarette production are about as slim as the chances that its cigarettes will be found to be good for the lungs. Unless...