Word: fundamentalistism
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Noll came to the Steelers in 1969 with good bloodlines, as Owner Art Rooney, a noted horse fancier, likes to point out: he had become a football fundamentalist while playing guard and linebacker for the old Browns, and he coached under Sid Gillman in San Diego and Don Shula in Baltimore. When Noll arrived, the Steelers were the pushovers of the N.F.L.; they had won just 18 games in the previous five seasons. Noll had no choice but to rebuild the team through the annual college player draft. His very first pick: Defensive Tackle Joe Greene. The following year Noll...
This new outlet of religion is controlled almost totally by the Evangelical-Fundamentalist-Pentecostal wing of Protestantism. It is a chicken-or-egg question whether broadcasters foster the Evangelical tide or vice versa, but they now own more than 1,400 radio stations and 35 TV stations. Four religious "networks" feed programs via satellite to stations and to thousands of cable-TV hookups. The network organizers dream of the day they can offer a total "family-centered" and "wholesome" alternative to commercial TV, complete with "Christian" soap operas and newscasts. Their talk shows already draw on a gospel celebrity circuit...
...associated with the National Action Party, an ultraconservative group. On the other are the more numerous leftist, often campus-based, organizations such as the Marxist-Leninist Armed Propaganda Squad and the Turkish Workers and Peasants Liberation Army. There have also been signs, some of them ominous, of a possible fundamentalist Muslim revival. In November, for example, Muslim gangs demonstrated against Americans in Izmir and other cities after false radio reports that the U.S. had been behind the seizure of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca...
Khomeini may even wish to transcend Iranian nationalism and export his fundamentalist Islamic revival. The prospect of such contagious piety disturbs other Muslim leaders, the Saudi royal family, for example. But it also raises apprehension and a certain amount of bewilderment in the West. When Mahdist Saudi zealots took over the mosque in Mecca last month, the Islamic world displayed a disconcerting readiness to believe Khomeini's incendiary report that the attack had been the work of Zionists and U.S. imperialists. "The Americans have done it again," many Muslims told themselves reflexively. Some Americans have responded by asking with...
...were the invaders? Most accounts still held that they were predominantly Saudis, probably members of the nomadic 'Utaibah tribe and several other tribal groups. Many were thought to belong to a fundamentalist sect that had previously agitated against TV, radio and women's rights. Yet it was clear that they were well trained, probably in South Yemen, and that the operation had been well planned. Said one Western intelligence official in the Middle East: "This was a direct attack against the House of Saud. You can be sure that the end of the battle of the Sacred Mosque...