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...Between extremist evolutionists, with their insistence on a materialistic blind-chance explanation, and extreme fundamentalist creationists, with their insistence on a first-chapter-of-Genesis explanation, there is not much room left for us Christians who years ago acknowledged the truth of evolution...
Leon Jaworski, former Watergate special prosecutor: "I would rather have a competent extremist than an incompetent moderate...
Peck may get to keep that dime. Dornan's tactics have turned off voters and helped win Peck the endorsement of Dornan's predecessor, eight-term Republican Alphonzo Bell, who stayed neutral in 1978. He now criticizes Dornan's "extremist, right-wing viewpoints." Although Dornan and Peck are running about even in the polls, political experts give Peck a good shot at pulling ahead...
...record that is complicated to defend. Then too there is no doubt that, wise or not, Carter's attacks are heartfelt, that he fervently believes Reagan would be a disaster for the country, that the Governor's lack of understanding of domestic and world problems, and his extremist past statements, do indeed raise the specter of war and domestic divisions. Says a close presidential aide: "He is so frustrated that no one else is saying these things that he feels he has to shout all the louder...
Jiang Qing assumed power with the assistance of her three fellow gang members: Yao Wenyuan, 56, a literary critic whose extremist articles in the Shanghai daily Wen Hui inaugurated the Cultural Revolution; Wang Hongwen, 43, a party secretary in a Shanghai cotton mill, who in 1973 was elevated by Mao to the third highest post in the Communist hierarchy; and Zhang Chunqiao, 69, who helped Jiang Qing purge almost the entire cultural establishment of China. The four instituted a reign of terror during which thousands of writers, artists and scientists were so relentlessly persecuted that many died or committed suicide...