Word: fundamentalistism
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...long way toward explaining the Melendez persona by looking at how he arrived at Harvard. His route to Cambridge brought him a long way from the fundamentalist, born-again Christian community in Ocala, Florida to which he moved at age six. His family, he says, "is really into the Pentacostal, fundamentalists Bible-thumping revivalist tradition of born-again Christianity" associated with the Moral Majority. For much of his childhood, his family also was quite poor, living "in a mobile home in a dingy little trailer park in the outskirts of town." He says, however, that his family has become more...
Following the collapse of his peace initiative last February, King Hussein has worked hard to ensure domestic stability. He curbed the activities of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood and expelled leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Last week Hussein cracked down on the Jordanian Communist Party. Twenty-three of its leaders were arrested for inciting antigovernment protests...
Reagan has addressed veterans, farmers, astronauts, high schools and more backwater fundamentalist meetings than Rev. Ernest Angely. But will he talk to America's oldest center of higher education? Is it really impossible for Reagan to schedule a day for us in between visits to Camp David and Rancho Cielo...
Throughout the Middle East, it was a bad week for the forces of moderation. In Beirut, four French television crewmen were kidnaped on Saturday by unknown gunmen. Earlier, the shadowy Islamic Jihad, believed to be the umbrella organization that includes Shi'ite Fundamentalist groups like the Iranian-backed Hizballah (Party of God), announced that it had killed French Researcher Michel Seurat, 37, one of the four other Frenchmen kidnaped in the Lebanese capital during the past two years. Six Americans and one Briton are still missing. The reasons for the alleged murder: retaliation against the French for their pro-Iraq...
...Cairenes were slowly recovering from the effects of rioting by 17,000 security policemen. The official toll: 107 killed and 719 injured, roughly three times the number originally reported. The riots' apparent cause: discontent of police conscripts, angry over poor pay and living conditions, who were soon joined by Fundamentalist agitators. The mutiny was quickly put down. In the short term, the government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even...