Word: fundamentalistic
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...former world-record holder in the mile and a three-time Olympian, Ryun is a fundamentalist Christian conservative who stresses the importance of family, finances and the future, saying he wants to return to the principles of the Founding Fathers. He has done some grass-roots campaigning with his wife and children, but he has to keep it up to win this seat, which was Democratic for 20 out of 24 years before Sam Brownback took it in the 1994 election. For Ryun, the athlete and politician, this race could come down to a sprint in the home stretch...
Peninsula is an ideological oddity; a self-contained school of thought that believes that the ultimate truth of the universe is known only to those who think exactly as its members do. Its core beliefs seem to be comprised of a heavy dose of fundamentalist Christianity mixed with supply-side economics, and topped off by a paranoid hostility toward anything different. We gaze in collective wonderment as it recklessly attacks gays, women and anyone less conservative than itself...
Russia, however, views the prospect of a fundamentalist Islamic Afghanistan with undisguised alarm, particularly the projection of Taliban rule or influence into pro-Moscow Tajikistan, whose border with Afghanistan is already patrolled by Russian soldiers. Last week Boris Yeltsin sent his Prime Minister to a hurriedly arranged meeting of leaders from four former Soviet--and predominantly Muslim--republics in Central Asia. Security Chief Alexander Lebed announced that Russia should help prop up Rabbani, though it is hard to imagine a Russian return to Afghanistan...
KABUL, Afghanistan: Fearing the growing power of Afghanistan's fundamentalist Taliban leaders, three militia chiefs in the nation's northern provinces have formed a formal military alliance. Former military chief Ahmed Shah Massood signed a mutual defense pact Thursday with militia leader Rashid Dostum and Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalily that establishes a new government covering nine provinces. Massood has been skirmishing with the Taliban since the movement drove Afghanistan's government out of Kabul two weeks ago, and Dostum says he fears he will be next. The men lead a minority population in the north that fears persecution from...
...become the order of the day, Faye Wattleton seems almost a relic. The telegenic and controversial head of Planned Parenthood from 1978 to 1992, Wattleton winces at phrases like "common ground" when applied to the subject of reproductive rights for women. For Wattleton, whose mother was a traveling Fundamentalist preacher for the Church of God, right and wrong--like heaven and hell--are very clearly defined...