Word: fundamentalistism
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Feet apart, fists chopping the air, Culver roars that he received a zero-percent rating from Christian Voice, a fundamentalist lobbying group. With fire and brimstone in his voice, he adds sarcastically: "If you were for SALT II, you couldn't be a good Christian. If you were for normalization of relations with China, you couldn't be a good Christian. My opponent [who got a 100% rating] voted against foreign aid. What would Jesus Christ have said to that when 1 billion people in the world are going to bed hungry every night...
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, a strict Muslim fundamentalist, flew to New York City to present to the United Nations Security Council Iran's complaint that Iraq had started the war by attacking Iranian territory. Shortly before Raja'i's arrival, President Carter for the first time referred publicly and disapprovingly to "aggression." Since Iraq is indisputably the aggressor in this conflict, Carter's statement touched off speculation that the U.S. was tilting slightly toward Tehran, perhaps in anticipation of the release of the 52 American hostages. Out of that conjecture grew a new flurry of rumors that...
...Vinogradov met with Iranian Prime Minister Raja'i and declared that Moscow was ready to provide military assistance to Tehran. Raja'i, a devout Muslim fundamentalist, flatly rejected the offer and criticized Moscow for its opportunism. "Nothing you may give us is worth our freedom, independence and Islamic revolution," he reportedly told the ambassador, adding that Iran had strong objections to the Soviets' arming of Iraq and invasion of Afghanistan. Adding insult to injury, Raja'i allowed the official Iranian news agency, PARS, to release a report on the talks. TASS responded by calling the stories...
...significant fact was that Reagan was there at all. Attending the meeting were the leaders of a new political movement: evangelical-fundamentalist preachers dedicated to herding conservative Christians to the polls in the hope that most of them will vote for Reagan. The strength of that movement is difficult to assess. But in an election expected by both sides to be extremely close, it is one of several factors that just might tip the balance in states like Ohio and IIlinois, and it definitely could have an influence in some scattered local races...
Then there was William Jennings Bryan who, having seen his fundamentalist creed vindicated during the Scopes trial of 1925, still insisted upon taking the stand in order to make his antievolution position crystal clear, thereby exposing himself to national (and historical) ridicule. And there was Oveta Culp Hobby who, as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in 1955, explained the shortage of the new Salk polio vaccine: "No one could have foreseen its great acclaim." And there is always Richard Nixon, the apostle of perfect clarity, who at times has seemed hell-bent on clarifying himself out of existence...