Word: fundamentalistism
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...ancient homeland and of what the U.N. had intended to be a Palestinian state. Resentment of the Israeli military occupation is the common denominator among a wide political spectrum of groups, ranging from supporters of the Palestine Liberation Organization to monarchists loyal to Jordan's King Hussein to fundamentalist Muslims who advocate an Islamic state patterned after Iran. Since 1967, the Israelis have established some 100 settlements in the occupied territories that now house 30,000 Jewish settlers. Surrounded by barbed wire and guarded by armed men, the settlements have added an abrasive element to an already tense situation...
...minority groups at Harvard consider tactics they inevitably revert to this archetypal view of the Harvard man. "Male," says the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS). "White," say the Black Students Association (BSA) and La Raza, the Chicago students group. "Upper class," says the William J. Seymour Society, a Black fundamentalist Christian group concerned with issues of economic equality. "Heterosexual," says the Gay Students Association (GSA). What these groups have in common, says RUS President Sharon J. Orr '83, is that "Harvard doesn't understand...
...There is a possibility of a division between the Sunni and Shi'a Muslims. I believe this would be more devastating than anything else in this area. This [Islamic fundamentalist] movement takes its direction from Tehran, and it is like a tidal wave. Eventually it will disappear. But what damage it can cause in this area! It could take many governments with it. It would really bring this area closer to what we see happening everywhere [violent upheaval], unless the majority of Arabs stand up and face...
Procter & Gamble found that the latest rumors were being spread by Fundamentalist religious groups, mostly in the South. Several pastors had passed on the tales from their pulpits. Leaflets urging Christians to stop buying the company's products were being distributed in front of churches, schools and stores...
...contrast, the opposition-the Eagle Forum, Fundamentalist Christian churches, the Moral Majority, the John Birch Society, the Mormon Church, the American Farm Bureau-was well financed and smoothly organized almost from the start. While ERA supporters staged national demonstrations, foes visited state legislators to argue that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented...