Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tuesday Goodman appeared in a Jerusalem court. He was seemingly indifferent to the fact that he could not afford a defense lawyer. "It doesn't matter," he said. "This is a political action, rather than a legal matter." Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the extremist Kach movement (see box), quickly came to Goodman's rescue by agreeing to pay for his defense. Goodman shouted as he left the courtroom, "Justice for national liberation!" Little was yet known about the Baltimore-born Goodman, 37, beyond reports that he had been visiting Israel off and on since 1967 and had only recently...
...West Bank, for example, Kahane turned up in uniform for reserve duty in the city of Ramallah. He indiscriminately arrested Arabs and journalists. Last week Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek, himself a victim of Kach hate mail, demanded that the government crack down on what he called "violently extremist Jews who give the impression that they are above the law merely because they are Jewish...
...parishioner in Worcester, Mass. "They will change no minds by picketing or being arrested." When Arch bishop Hunthausen termed Seattle's new nuclear-submarine base an "American Auschwitz," Navy Secretary John Lehman, moral" a to Catholic, "misuse sacred replied that it religious was office "im to promulgate extremist political views." And Lay Theologian Michael Novak argues that in an area as complex as nuclear negotiations, bishops should not "invoke sacred authority" for one view when specialists have good reason to dispute...
...rein in the endemic violence that haunts El Salvador, much of it attributed to the government's own security forces. But he faces a tough challenge from ultrarightist candidates in the six-party contest. Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, a former Salvadoran national guard intelligence officer and a fierce extremist, has been campaigning aggressively on an unleash-the-army-and-crush-the-Communists platform, and has been gaining momentum. A victory by a coalition of D'Aubuisson's National Republican Alliance with the conservative National Reconciliation Party, the traditional vehicle of the oligarchy, would be a disaster for Washington's policy...
Editor Winter scoffs at those who call the magazine extremist and unrepresentative of the vast majority of American public opinion. "They're wrong," he says simply. "What is Human Events is so extreme?" He goes on to state his belief that "a large number of Americans" agree with the ideology put forth weekly in Human Events...