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...right neofascist British National Party, which advocates anti-immigration policies, last year startled the political establishment by winning a seat in the local government of a poor London district. In May's municipal elections, they lost it again but, encouraged, the B.N.P. together with a handful of other small rightist movements fielded 68 candidates, winning up to 7% of the vote -- but no seats -- in some districts...
...several months now, the United States and its ideological allies have rested easy as the political situation in south Africa has remained fairly tranquil. Friction between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National congress had ebbed, and rightist whites had been held in check by the government. But an ill-timed holdout against free elections by Lucas Mangope, president of the "Black homeland" Bophuthatswana, swept the whole nation into hysteria...
Israel's urbane rightist left griping on the sidelines by P.L.O. deal...
...Palestinians must prove they can govern themselves, maintain order and keep their violent agitators under control, if they hope to receive a payoff in the form of more land and sovereignty in the occupied territories. If they do not, and Islamic and Palestinian rejectionists attack Israel, triggering counterattacks from rightist Israelis only too eager to respond, the experiment will be canceled, never to be repeated in this generation...
...indictment sketched out the case, the plotters allegedly intended to kidnap and/or murder supposed enemies of Islam much as they had gunned down Meir Kahane, the virulent leader of the rightist Kach organization. The targets named included a New York state assemblyman ally of Kahane's, the state judge who sentenced Nosair, and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. Two months ago, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali boasted that the conspirators had recruited a pilot willing to bomb Mubarak's presidential palace in Cairo. In the U.S. future bombing targets allegedly included unspecified military installations as well as the George Washington Bridge...