Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Germans' anger could only give heart to the N.L.A., whose desert battalions have been poised to make war against the fundamentalist government since 1988. The army's finest moment came in 1991, when it successfully fought off a large-scale incursion by a force of elite Revolutionary Guards. The N.L.A.'s officers claim they have launched more than 100 cross-border operations against Iran in the past several years. The Iranians have responded with terrorist strikes, Scud missiles and, in January, a mortar assault on the N.L.A.'s fortified compound in downtown Baghdad, causing minor damage...
...Levitican University, a Fundamentalist Christian college in Southern California, something remarkable is going on. Professor Guy Albrick, head of the Department of Molecular Neurology, has devised a radically new technique to help male students who are troubled by homosexual urges...
...across its southern border in Afghanistan. Officials in Tajikistan as well as Moscow (which is propping up the Tajik government) say the southern town of Kulyab, the political stronghold of Tajik President Imomali Rakhmonov, has become a major resupply base for Afghan forces opposed to the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic fighters who have taken control of much of Afghanistan in the past year. Sources have told TIME the military aid either comes directly from Russia or is being supplied by former Soviet Central Asian republics with Moscow's blessing. The equipment is loaded onto Afghan heavy-transport planes in Kulyab...
Among his would-be exploiters are a sometime revivalist (Christopher Walken), now reduced to selling used RVs and aluminum siding; a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won't tour as the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, a TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm, half snarl...
...hustlers and lowlifes who swarm around when word of his preternatural healing gifts starts to drift out of the rehab center where he has taken refuge. Among his would-be exploiters are a sometime revivalist (Christopher Walken), now reduced to selling used RVs and aluminum siding; a Catholic fundamentalist (Tom Arnold), prepared to enforce a return to the Latin Mass, at gunpoint if necessary; a dubious record promoter (Paul Mazursky), worried that Juvenal won?t tour like the Pope does; a star biographer (Janeane Garofalo), looking for the inside gossip; and, of course, the TV host (Gina Gershon), half smarm...