Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brings to the ticket Washington expertise and foreign policy experience, two things that Reagan conspicuously lacks. More fundamental, Bush appeals to a sector of the electorate crucial to a Reagan victory: voters who are receptive to a conservative appeal but have long distrusted Reagan as a potential far-right extremist...
That angry cry came from a victim of one of the South's bloodiest clashes in years, a fight on Nov. 3, 1979, that pitted one extremist group against another and deeply disturbed the town of Greensboro, N.C. Bermanzohn is a member of a leftist group called the Communist Workers Party, which until late last year had been known as the Workers Viewpoint Organization. Though W.V.O. members had been trying to organize textile workers, most of whom are black, in and around Greensboro, the first stir of trouble came last July in China Grove, N.C., when two W.V.O. workers...
Fort Wayne police continued to question black leaders, as well as Ku Klux Klansmen and local members of other extremist groups in an effort to turn up leads; officers even used hypnosis in an unsuccessful attempt to sharpen the memory of a man who reported seeing a parked car just off Interstate 69 at the time of the shooting but could recall little else about...
...bloodshed has intensified. Jewish settlers on the West Bank, who constitute about 2% of the population of the region (excluding East Jerusalem), have stepped up their demands for the support of the Israeli authorities, and the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin has been eager to oblige. When extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish student was killed by a sniper...
...speech to the Knesset last week, Prime Minister Begin denounced the West Bank bombings as "crimes of the gravest type" and promised that those responsible would be brought to justice. But by his intransigence on the question of Palestinian autonomy and his policy of coddling the extremist Jewish settlers and their backers, Begin himself had contributed to the climate of violence. As the Jerusalem Post said last week, the bombings were part of "a process whose roots lie in the concept of perpetual Jewish rule in the West Bank, but whose shoots are the denial of coexistence...