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...latest in the left's stunning victories pushed Labor closer to a number of extremist positions. Among them: unilateral nuclear disarmament, the banning of U.S. nuclear weapons from Britain, sweeping nationalization of industry, withdrawal from ties with NATO and the European Community and the abolition of the House of Lords. "Today," said left-wing Standard-Bearer Tony Benn, 55, "we have changed the course of British history." The radical platform seemed certain to frighten many of Labor's moderate voters, and the strengthened left in power could transform Britain's relations with the U.S. Warned Kingman Brewster...
...good speechmakers rank among the nation's most valuable political commodities. As the most updated guide to the ultra-conservative's galaxy, The New Right is the wor'd according to a master of the discipline. Direct-mail magnate Richard Viguerie has diversified and converted his seductive brand of extremist politics into pulp form. The New Right is tailored to become the bible of the conservative movement...
...support for extensive but moderate reforms in the region as a means to contain extremist and communist expansion...
...major Syrian accusation was that Jordan has been "arming, training and financing" extremist elements of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, which wants to topple Assad's ten-year-old regime. Syrian television recently reported that Jordanian Prime Minister Mudar Badran had even visited Muslim Brotherhood camps near Irbid on the Jordanian side of the 240-mile common frontier. Damascus further charged that the Muslim Brotherhood, operating from clandestine camps in Jordan, has been able to launch a two-year campaign of assassinations and bombings within Syria. King Hussein has firmly denied the Syrian allegations, although he has legalized political activities...
...Klux Klansmen and two members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party. The charges: killing five members, four white and one black, of the Communist Workers Party at a C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member and the widow of one of the victims, charged that the trial was part...