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...Arab-American charged with murdering Jewish extremist Meir Kahane two years ago was found innocent on all major counts even though witnesses provided overwhelming evidence that the defendant was the man who pulled the trigger...
Disaffection has helped spread extremist organizations throughout the country. Membership of radical groups has grown to 40,000 nationwide, up 25% since 1990, and three-quarters of those are considered ready to commit violent acts. No sign has been more frightening, though, than the crowds that have cheered on the rioting hooligans. Says sociologist Wolf Lepenies: "I'm not at all surprised that 100 or 200 would attack an asylum house. I'm more worried about the passive...
...media events that publicize exactly the choice we want to keep private. The less attention we pay to them, the smaller their forum will be--and the more they will have to resort to illegal means that will land them in jail and will also paint them as the extremist group that they are. They will have trouble persuading people to their viewpoint, and they will matter little in the future legislation of abortion...
...believe that the extremist view is held by those who are willing to tolerate the doubling of carbon dioxide in a single generation, the loss in a single lifetime of more than half the living species God put on earth, the destruction of a large percentage of the protective ozone shield in only a few decades, the loss of more than an acre of tropical rain forest every second, the addition of an entire China's worth of people every decade, the poisoning of our air and water resources, the serious erosion of our cropland. Those...
...even as the espionage game continues, Moscow and Washington are looking warily ahead to cooperation in a variety of fields. The U.S. would like to acquire information on extremist groups, such as the murderous Abu Nidal organization, once supported by communist bloc countries. The Russians could use assistance in gearing up against potential terrorist threats from increasingly militant ethnic groups in the former Soviet empire. Moscow is also in line for advice on how to operate civilian oversight of intelligence activities in a democracy, assistance that the CIA is already giving to a number of ex-Soviet bloc countries...