Word: fundamentalistism
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...Sudanese government the kind of concerted pressure they applied to neighboring Ethiopia when the Marxist regime there was hindering famine relief in another civil war. They fear criticism would strain their fragile ties to a government strategically placed between Ethiopia and Libya and only strengthen the hand of the fundamentalist National Islamic Front, an important power in the Khartoum coalition...
...extend full diplomatic relations. In the occupied territories, the Israeli army clamped on curfews to prevent violent outbursts or jubilant displays. Though shopkeepers in Arab East Jerusalem passed out chocolates and local residents exchanged greetings of "Mabrouk" (congratulations), some West Bankers disparaged Arafat's half step toward Israel. The fundamentalist-led Islamic Resistance Movement distributed a leaflet that declared, "This independence movement is imaginary. It is a quick move by some of the Palestinian ranks to steal the fruits of the intifadeh's victory...
...French press disclosed a sheet of printed instructions for a campaign of harassment against the film that included the use of tear gas. According to the weekend Journal du Dimanche, the instructions gave a Paris phone number belonging to the Centre Charlier, a fundamentalist Roman Catholic organization founded by Bernard Anthony, a National Front deputy in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Anthony denied any connection to the attacks. But at week's end police were still investigating members of the Centre Charlier for possible involvement in l'affaire Temptation...
Massoud and Rabbani, both fundamentalist Muslims, are careful to distance Jamiat from radical visions of an Islamic state; specifically, asserts Massoud, "the position adopted by Iran is not laid down by Islam." Massoud also jabs sharply at one of Rabbani's chief rivals, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the head of Hezb-i-Islami, calling him the "extremist" among the conservative Islamic resistance leaders in Peshawar. Throughout the war, armed clashes have flared between Hekmatyar's men and other mujahedin parties -- Jamiat, in particular -- and a personal rivalry between Massoud and Hekmatyar dates back to their university days in Kabul. "Hekmatyar has always...
...Catonsville Nine in 1970, hoping to nab the priest as an escaped felon. Currently the Taper is offering Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Turgenev's Fathers and Sons that hauntingly echoes U.S. political dialectics of the '60s, and Davidson is developing a script about the political resurgence of Fundamentalist Christianity...