Word: extremists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrorist bombings and assassinations. Shamir was one of its most notorious members. If Israel refuses to budge on the West Bank, it could, over time, become just another Levantine war zone pretending to be a country, in which latter-day equivalents of the Stern Gang battle with the most extremist of the Palestinians...
...most ruthless of the rebel leaders, heads a faction of the Hezb-e-Islami (Islamic Party). Despite his outspokenly anti-Western views, he is reportedly allotted 25% of the total U.S. weapon supply by the Pakistanis, more even than Rabbani. An engineer by training, Hekmatyar is a religious extremist who would keep Afghan women in purdah...
...outlawed Protestant group, declared that the lawyer was "an officer in the I.R.A.," a charge his family denied. Finucane represented the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, in its successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...
Eventually people must realize that the costs of inaction are borne by more than the poor. Extremist groups such as the Nation of Islam have cleaned up drug-infested areas and earned the support of many local residents. If the government cannot help the prisoners of the urban ghetto, hate groups will...
...raids came only ten days after the new-right party, the Republicans, won a startling 7.5% of the vote in West Berlin city elections. Zimmermann said the ban on the National Assembly did not affect the Republican Party, because it is not considered "extremist." As for the National Assembly group, leader Michael Kuhnen, who remained free despite the ban, announced the formation of a new neo-Nazi party...