Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Supporters of imprisoned political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche were stumping in Harvard Square yesterday, trying to convince passersby to sign a petition to get him out of jail...
Aware that homegrown corruption and poverty provide recruits to the extremist ranks, Arab governments find it convenient to exaggerate the threat from outside. It also suits the Islamist rebels to evoke the fearsome image of a mighty army of trained and dedicated fanatics in their quest for local political power. The truth is that the Arab governments of the Middle East would be under siege without any centrally directed threat or terrorists returning home from the Afghan wars. Revivalists like Sudan's Hassan al-Turabi can exploit Arab discontent, but they have not been able to coordinate or direct...
...friends, he is Mahmud the Red, a devout Muslim who came to America to work hard and raise a family. To prosecutors, he is a religious extremist who helped bomb the World Trade Center...
Rabin's Labor government is selling the agreement on the not entirely reassuring ground that it is "reversible" if the P.L.O. welshes or cannot contain extremist violence. Rabin almost surely will get the pact through the Knesset, and once it is approved, it will be difficult for any subsequent Israeli government to back out. Ariel Sharon, a leader of the opposition Likud bloc, thundered last week that if his party returns to power, it "will not honor" the pact. But no one else in Likud endorsed his view...
...Thursday all 15 defendants were marched, handcuffed and in single file, into a courtroom in lower Manhattan, where they entered pleas of not guilty. The courtroom was packed with security men, since three Egyptian extremist organizations had vowed "revenge" if Abdel Rahman is harmed. Defense lawyers accused the government of conflating rumors and suspicions into a fantasy conspiracy to whip up a new kind of cold war hysteria, substituting Islamic fundamentalism for communism as the enemy...