Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past few days people all over the world have witnessed the chronicle of a death foretold. Several extremist Hamas terrorists kidnapped and killed an Israeli soldier, Nachshon Waxman after holding him hostage for several days. Officially, Hamas demanded the release of 200 prisoners from Israeli jails in return for his release. But Hamas never meant to release Nachshon Waxman. They would have killed him anyway. Their act was so offensive in a country known for its concern for the welfare of its soldiers, and their demands so excessive, that they could have hardly expected a serious negotiation to take place...
...apparent unraveling of Robb's regime. "The Klan is more splintered than ever," says Thomas Halpern of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City. "But for the sake of public safety and the country as a whole, this is better than if the granddaddy of the far-right extremist movement presented a united front. If we're lucky they'll expend their energy fighting each other, and they won't have anything left to infect the American body politic...
...because no deals outside police scams have come to light. Even so, the price of enough plutonium to make a bomb would have to be in the millions of dollars or tens of millions. It is doubtful that any terrorist group has that kind of financing. Even Hizballah, the extremist group most directly linked to a state sponsor, cannot expect to receive tens of millions for its own purchases from an Iran that is struggling to arm itself...
...opposition leader jailed for inciting riots, Tutsi youths in Bujumbura organized a general strike and set up barricades of burning tires to prevent people from going to work. Quiet returned to the city a few days later but was quickly broken when grenades were lobbed into crowds. Hutu extremist groups, newly armed with Rwandan weapons coming into Burundi from Zaire, have reorganized to mount counterattacks...
...leaders of the mainstream pro-life groups, with their millions of sympathizers, it did attract the movement's radical wing, whose adherents make up the majority of clinic protesters. Scheidler and other attendees report that after nearly two days of debate, barely half those present specifically repudiated Hill's extremist views. Adds Scheidler: "It wasn't just justifiable homicide; it was ((support for)) violence, bombing and arson . . . I thought, 'Wow! The movement has gone through some kind of transition...