Word: fundamentalistic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more be a campaign issue than those of Mrs. Clinton. But the Vice President's wife has gone out of her way to criticize Hillary on points where she has labeled criticism of herself as unfair. When stories surfaced in 1988 about her parents' adherence to the teachings of Fundamentalist preacher "Colonel" Robert B. Thieme Jr., known for attacking homosexuals, liberals and the United Nations, she fumed that religion was a private matter. But recently she told a friend she considered it "very significant" that the Governor and his wife attended different churches...
...this does not necessarily mean the Republicans are riding a weak horse. The fundamentalist family agenda has energy, even if the economy is the voters' first concern. Family-values questions play. In the poll, 71% agree that "there is something morally wrong with the country at this time." Almost as many agree with the idea that "television and other media . . . reflect a permissive and immoral set of values, which are bad for the country...
...stories of savagery have come to define life in what was Yugoslavia. Whether they are fact or fiction is almost irrelevant: what people think is happening determines behavior. Serbs say that they fear the imminent imposition of a scourging fundamentalist Islamic regime in the heart of Europe, and that they must defend themselves however they may. Muslims tell tales of castration and execution at the hands of Serbs, justifying their imprisonment or expulsion from the small enclaves they still control. The very fear of brutality has set off a huge exodus of Bosnia-Herzegovina's population in search of safety...
...protect people." They have conjured up a phantom Islamic jihad from which they are saving Europe. ( "This is not a civil war," insists Prijedor police chief Drljaca. "It's a religious war." The operative lie is that Bosnia's Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, is bent on creating a Muslim fundamentalist state. Never mind that Bosnia's Muslims are not fundamentalist, indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there are tendencies to create an Islamic state." Serbs claim that...
That strategy makes Palestinian negotiators anxious. They must show tangible results quickly to fend off fundamentalist opponents, yet must satisfy multiple constituencies -- factions in the territories and the Palestine Liberation Organization, Palestinians in camps and abroad -- before they can make any concessions. Publicly, their negotiators professed disdain for Rabin's speech, exaggerating its tough elements and ignoring its invitations for cooperation...