Word: fundamentalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Washington officials speculate that at least some of the kidnapings were the work of Al Dawa (the Call), an Iraqi Shi'ite fundamentalist group that is thought to have perpetrated the December 1983 bombings of the U.S. embassy and other targets in Kuwait. This would explain offers to free at least some of the Americans in exchange for the release of 17 Shi'ite terrorists imprisoned in Kuwait for the bombings. But many Western diplomats in Beirut believe that another Shi'ite organization, called Hizballah (Party of God), might also be holding the Americans. Callers to Western news agencies...
Your reviewer takes Susan Cheever to task [BOOKS, Oct. 29] for emphasizing "the costs rather than the achievements" of life with John Cheever-a sensitive, talented, but alcoholic father. I am the daughter of an alcoholic fundamentalist minister who gave much to the world prior to his early death. Yet I question if this world might not be better had his four children not endured the awful duplicity required in such circumstances...
Some Christians, however, have always held doggedly to literal interpretations of such texts. This view flourishes in the U.S., not only in such sects as Jehovah's Witnesses and Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God but also within evangelical and fundamentalist Protestant churches. Literalists are called premillennialists because they believe Christ's Second Coming will precede an actual millennial kingdom (Revelation...
Paid for by the Mondale for President Committee, the ad is part of a concerted Democratic drive to make Falwell a campaign issue. Mondale dropped the Fundamentalist preacher's name three times during the debate with President Reagan, and Running Mate Geraldine Ferraro picked up the refrain when she squared off with Vice President George Bush. Says a Mondale aide: "Jerry Falwell is a no-risk whipping...
Moral Majority does not turn the other cheek. It claims to have added 2 million Republican voters to the registration rolls this year, 8 million since 1978. Another fundamentalist group, Christian Voice, publishes a "Biblical Scoreboard" to show that Reagan is more faithful to the Scriptures than Mondale on abortion, homosexual rights, school prayer and national defense...