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...Southerners." But he does not sound like a Southerner. When he entered grade school in New Orleans, he was teased for having a Dutch accent. (His engineer father had taken the family to the Netherlands in the 1950s.) A bookish loner in school, Duke sought out extremist mentors who treated him as a brilliant young disciple. With contemporaries he was condescending or defiant, moving to a deeper rhythm of history than they could be aware of, trying to shock them into submission with "street theater" involving swastikas and Klan robes...
...swiftly changing Europe, the decline of terrorism from its bloody peaks of more than a decade ago would seem inevitable. Extremist ideologies are fading, after all, so recruiting militants to fight for anachronistic or lost causes ought to be growing more and more difficult. Besides, notes Paul Wilkinson, director of the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism in London, "it is no longer fashionable for young people on the left to see terrorism as glamorous and romantic. It's regarded as a futile gesture." Yet the virus is proving surprisingly resistant...
Despite the flare-ups in Britain and West Germany, experts believe the threat of homegrown terrorism in Western Europe is receding. In Italy the Red Brigades, once a veritable scourge, have not mounted an attack in more than two years. In France, Action Directe, a far-left extremist movement, appears to have been crushed. Experts warn, however, that a new menace may be looming: the ethnic and religious conflicts springing out of the dissolution of the Soviet empire could give rise to a new strain of the terrorist virus. The Soviets appear to be so worried about that possibility that...
Members of this extremist clique speak of "presenting a united front" when "combating the Left," as though Harvard were divided into two distinct camps, each poised at the other's throat. They speak of a single "Christian" ideology, ignoring the very real differences between Christian sects and invalidating the other religions practiced by some one-third of undergraduates...
This year, not everyone is happy. Valeria E. Scott '92, Sanders J. Chae '92 and Peter B. Rutledge '92 have all resigned from the executive board in protest of Anderson's extremist views. After the club's decision to support Peninsula without first reviewing the content of the magazine, Ackley says he almost quit as well, although he eventually decided to remain to try to "keep the extremism in moderation...