Word: fundamentalistism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Long-time advocates of gay rights said the climate has gotten progressively more liberal where homosexuality is concerned, but worry about the effect the resurgence of fundamentalist religion could have on this year's debate...
...seemingly suicidal wish: not to have medical treatment for her rare form of bone cancer. Doctors had testified that without chemotherapy and radiation treatment she would die within months. But Pamela's father Larry is a minister in the Church of God of the Union Assembly, a fundamentalist sect that does not permit its members to seek medical treatment and counsels them to rely instead on the power of prayer. Despite her dramatic plea seven months ago, the judge ordered hospital care to begin. Last week her doctor an nounced that there was no longer any evidence...
...this war have been great, and if Iran wins the worldwide repercussions will be severe. Iran has fielded a half-million man army. Casualty estimates run into the tens of thousands. Iraq now seems to be using deadly mustard gas on a large scale. And a victory for the fundamentalist regime of Ayatolah Khomeini would directly threaten the oil-rich kingdoms of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan...
Reagan's push for a prayer amendment may reflect longstanding conviction, but its timing and strategy at least have been heavily influenced by electoral calculation. Fundamentalist and Evangelical Protestants contributed many ballots to Reagan's 1980 sweep. But some have been grumbling that the President has done little to advance the so-called social issues that concern them most, like antiabortion legislation. Some months ago, White House strategists decided that the outset of the presidential campaign was the right time to placate this "core constituency" and that school prayer was the issue to stress in doing so. Explains...
...detained four of them on suspicion of complicity in the attack on the Palestinian laborers. The four detainees were later identified as active members of the ultra-nationalist Kach movement, led by Meir Kahane, founder of the U.S.-based Jewish Defense League. In another raid, Israeli police arrested three fundamentalist Jews who reportedly confessed to involvement in an abortive attempt last January to blow up Jerusalem's two most important Islamic shrines, the Al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Days later, the police uncovered a major arms cache near Jerusalem, including grenades, antitank weapons and mines...