Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there were plenty of questions left about PTL's new administration. For starters, Falwell is a Baptist Fundamentalist opposed to the Pentecostal experiences that are central to many PTL supporters. Since a majority of Falwell's new board members are also non-Pentecostal, one tongues-speaking preacher in South Carolina launched a crusade to get Falwell out of PTL, calling his appointment an "abomination...
...spaces that once broadcast his message of hope with spreads on seasonal fashion trends and recipes for triple-tiered Jellocakes. People magazine, which hailed him as one of "1986's 10 most interesting people," has dropped him from their party list. Terry Waite, seized several weeks ago by Muslim fundamentalist, is a media nonentity...
...victims were accused of belonging to an extreme antigovernment Muslim fundamentalist group said to have plotted to assassinate selected Soviet advisers in Libya and members of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's revolutionary committees. Exiled Libyans, however, claim the soldiers were executed for taking part in a mutiny protesting against Gaddafi's recent armed intervention in Chad...
...terrorist factions that have taken captives, Berri said he would seek freedom for all 24 foreign hostages kidnaped during the past two years. Doubts were immediately raised, however, about Berri's chances of success. His Syrian-backed Amal militia is a bitter rival of the Iran-supported Shi'ite fundamentalist groups that are believed to hold most of the hostages...
Torricelli, just back from a trip to Iraq, said, "The security of our country and of the entire western world is very much at issue today. There is a very real threat the Arab world could be united under this [Iranian] fundamentalist revolution...