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...intellectually curious, vigorous, active, articulate, argumentative, self-assured, occasionally impulsive." Suspicious too. According to Shultz, Gorbachev "suggested all that happens results from a conspiracy of the [U.S.] military and Big Business." Another American official reported Gorbachev seemed convinced that U.S. policy "was heavily influenced by a small circle of extremist people who are ideologically anti-Soviet" and who have "an ulterior motive, a hidden agenda," presumably a desire to destroy Communism, in their policy recommendations. At another point Gorbachev accused Washington of thinking it could "break us" by forcing a costly missile-defense race...
...disturbing series of events began last week when an anonymous telephone caller claimed that Americans held hostage by the extremist Islamic Jihad in Lebanon would be executed. The next day a bundle of letters was delivered to the Associated Press office in Beirut. One was addressed to President Reagan and signed by four of the six missing Americans. That seemed to confirm that the four--A.P. Correspondent Terry Anderson; the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, a Catholic priest; Agriculturist Thomas Sutherland; and David Jacobsen, director of the American University hospital in Beirut--were still alive. Two others, Diplomat William Buckley and Librarian...
...talk to some of the nonextremists, who, I can assure you, still live there. Yes, the city has a large number of immigrants, and that has led to a certain ethnic polarization. Still, it would have been wise to listen to others besides members of the right-wing extremist Vlaams Belang party or the radical Arab European League. The idea that an AEL candidate might be a main rival to Vlaams Belang in the 2012 municipal elections is plainly outrageous, since AEL's percentage of the vote in the last election was negligible. Dirk Lambrecht Brussels Your stories on discrimination...
...least 150 Serbs, and the forced expulsion of at least 150,000 others. But to many in Croatia he's a national hero. Damir Grubisa, a columnist for the Novi List daily, fears that Brussels' ultimatum could do more to push Croatia still further away from the E.U. "Extremist nationalism is on the rise. The E.U. decision created a lot of collateral damage here," he says
...Girl Culture,” Greenfield intends to be exhaustive—not simply extremist and sensationalist—and, as a result, she also captures the mundane. “Monica, 13, dances with her boyfriend Adam, 13, at a Bat Mitzvah party” recalls the tense atmosphere of a middle school dance. Monica, her face lit by multicolor stage lights, looks up and away, bored, while Adam, his hands around her waist, turns his face away from the camera...