Word: fanaticism
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A discussion on human rights was also inconclusive, partly because the journalists' questions allowed the candidates to get away with talking about different countries. "Perhaps in no area do we disagree more," said Mondale. He accused the Reagan Administration of "cozying up to Argentine dictators" (since deposed) and of undue...
As the bombing of the American embassy annex in East Beirut became a campaign issue, the swirl of political rhetoric threatened to obscure the hard particulars of just what happened and why. Yet the inquiries into the attack have more than a whipped-up partisan urgency: last week a telephone...
Despite President Reagan's assertions to the contrary, the lapses in security which let a crazed fanatic gun his bomb-laden van to the front entrance of the embassy remain nothing short of shocking.
These celebrities are politically useful not because an endorsement from Boy George will away any culture Club fanatic to vote Republican (most of them are too young to vote anyway), but for associations of youth, glamour, and vitality that they bring. Reagan, the Acting President, realizes that he does not...
All of these zealots die in the course of the book, victims of their inability to see beyond their fanatic blinders. Ironically, the only fanatic who lives is the one who can see the least, the myopic reporter who covers the events in Canudos. Judging from the casualty list, the...