Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assassination continued to unearth new details about Egypt's shadowy underground terrorist network. Nearly a month before the murder, agents had uncovered a plot to kill Sadat in the Nile delta town of Mansura. Sadat had actually been shown video and sound recordings of armed members of Islamic extremist groups who were plotting his assassination, but gave the matter little thought. Mubarak himself added more details about the conspiracy against Sadat. The objective of the killers, he said, was to "physically liquidate" all of Egypt's top military, religious and political leadership in order to pave...
Prejudice certainly is widespread. Apart from a few extremist groups such as the Afrikaner Weerstands Beweging, which bears more than a faint resemblance to the Nazis, ideological racism is rare. Whites do not openly make bigoted remarks. The literature of the ruling Nationalist Party contains no derogatory references to Blacks. But little things slip out. An English-speaking cab driver, who assured his passenger that he supported the reform-minded Progressive Federal Party, finished a lengthy discourse on poor Afrikaners (of predominantly Dutch stock, Afrikaners make up 65 per cent of the white population) by saying, "Why, some of these...
PASOK has been able to cash in on Greece's social and economic troubles. The country's current rulers look weak, in part because extremist violence has climbed sharply in recent months, with a heretofore unheard-of wave of politically inspired department-store firebombings and arsonist attacks...
...slums of greater Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, rejected the traditional socialism of the Labor Party in favor of the radical right-wing nationalism of the Likud. In turn, the more affluent Ashkenazi Jews from northern Europe backed Labor. Ironically, Begin, an Ashkenazi from Poland, was idolized by his more extremist Sephardi followers, who proclaimed him "King of Israel" in campaign slogans and songs...
...from formulating sweeping principles that would place him in one camp or another. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: " He's not going to be remembered as a great Justice, but that's part of his strength in a way. He was not an ideologue, not an extremist. They only remember the ones who stake out positions...