Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand jury indicted anti-abortion extremist Paul Hill on two first-degree, premeditated murder counts in the shootings of an abortion doctor and his escort outside their Pensacola, Fla., clinic last week. Hill, the former Presbyterian minister who advocates killing abortionists as "justifiable homicide," faces the death penalty. The escort, James Barrett, was buried yesterday. Today would have been his 75th birthday...
Britton and escort James Barrett, 74, died instantly. Barrett's 68-year-old wife June suffered an arm wound. Minutes later, police arrested Paul Hill, a local antiabortion extremist who had long called for the blood of clinic personnel...
President Clinton was on television by the end of the day, calling Britton's death a case of "domestic terrorism" and promising federal aid to the local police. Women's groups were angrily demanding greater protection for clinic workers and full-scale investigations into other extremists. Behind the public rage was a great deal of frustration and perhaps even some despair. Pro- choicers began to wonder: What good is constructing an indestructible garment of laws to protect a constitutional right if some extremist simply ignores them all and blows someone's head...
...Nader is an extremist," Fried said. "The Senate has chewed him up, between berating him and making...
...killing wasn't purely ethnic. It was also political," says Desire Habiyambire, a Hutu moderate who fled Rwanda with his three children after his name was circulated on a hit list. "I am caught in the middle," he adds. "Extremism is my enemy. If I meet a Hutu extremist, he will kill me. If I meet a Tutsi extremist, he too will kill...