Word: zealotous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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London police decided to handle the embassy seizure with as much patience as possible, but they were hard put to control the clamorous crowds that assembled and turned the scene into a bizarre street happening. Pro-regime Iranian students, led by a zealot with a bullhorn, chanted, "Long live Khomeini" and "Death to Carter." Separated from that group, by the efforts of police, were the anti-Khomeini Iranians and the fed-up Londoners, who shouted, "Go home, go home!" A lively group beating drums danced for peace, and a group of Britons sang Rule Britannia. Lamenting the fact that...
...Israel's controversial settlements policy. Relations between the city's 50,000 Arabs and the 4,000 Jews in the nearby settlement of Qiryat Arba took a turn for the worse after militant followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger took over the Hadassah clinic in 1979. Levinger, a zealot who advocates the "divine right" of Jews to settle anywhere in territory that belonged to biblical Israel, used the squatters' presence in the old Jewish quarter to pressure the government of Premier Menachem Begin to allow further Jewish settlement in the city. Begin's Cabinet reversed a policy...
Bunker, the leader of the six children of H.L.'s first marriage, they feud incessantly with the four children of the second marriage, seems to have inherited some of his father's traits. Like H.L., Bunker is a zealot for far-right causes. He is on the national council of the John Birch Society and is said to have angrily quit the University of Texas after one semester because one of his professors suggested that the Government should control all natural resources. Like H.L., Bunker has a penchant for controversy; he is almost constantly enmeshed in lawsuits. In 1975 Bunker...
...Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest of all Islamic shrines, which is under the protection of King Khalid. The raiders appeared to have mixed religious and political motives: they seemingly were armed and trained in Marxist South Yemen, but were fundamentalists opposed to all modernism, led by a zealot who had proclaimed the revolution in Iran to be a "new dawn" for Islam. It took the Saudi army more than a week to root them out from the catacomb-like basements of the mosque, and 156 died in the fighting?82 raiders and 74 Saudi troopers. In addition, demonstrators waving...