Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incursion was uneventful. Some 1,000 Israeli soldiers crossed into Southern Lebanon last week, rounding up villagers for interrogation and warning others not to help terrorists. The soldiers saw little action until they came to the heavily fortified village of Maydun, an outpost of the Shi'ite Muslim fundamentalist group Hizballah, or Party of God. Unleashing 1,000 rounds of artillery, the troops stormed the town at dawn and fought a house-to-house battle against the Islamic defenders. When the siege ended seven hours later, the Israelis counted 40 Shi'ites and three of their own dead. Before heading...
...strife continued. Bakker handed over control of PTL to Jerry Falwell only to turn against him and charge that the Virginia Fundamentalist had duped him in order to grab his empire. PTL filed for bankruptcy. Falwell escaped from the mess last October, calling it the "Watergate of evangelical Christianity." But even as Falwell abandoned politics a month later, Pat ; Robertson jumped in, leaving his Christian Broadcasting Network to get along without his strong presence. Left personally unscathed in all the turmoil were more churchly TV preachers such as Billy Graham and Robert Schuller...
...charismatic Christian who uses fervent congregations as political beachheads, just as Jesse Jackson employs black churches, Robertson nonetheless has failed to unite even his own religious family. Likely Republican voters who describe themselves as Evangelical or Fundamentalist Christians divide 44% for Bush, 30% for Dole and only 14% for Robertson. Jackson attracts overwhelming support from blacks, churchly and secular, because his message is that of economic populism. Moralism dominates Robertson's pitch, even though he now avoids mentioning his long membership in the Baptist ministry...
While Bush and Dole, Kemp and Du Pont have viciously attacked each other in debates and TV commercials, the Republican hopefuls have shied away from criticizing Robertson. His strong showings in Hawaii, Michigan, and lowa have convinced the other candidates that Robertson and the white, fundamentalist nonvoters he has recruited into the Republican fold are a force to be reckoned with. This hands-off policy toward Robertson has prevented an honest evaluation of his record, and his success has nudged the other candidates farther toward the right...
...tenacious fundamentalist vote, because they show up, and they do their work," Kilson said. "He has the advantage of having `godly' men working for him, but it many be a very different situation in New Hampshire...