Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...There is a new kind of poverty here," says John McDermott, a white editor and publisher of the Chicago Reporter, a monthly newsletter on racial issues. "What we have is a group permanently unemployed and permanently dependent. There is a growing social chaos within this group, complete social isolation. Their only window to America is the television...
...usual, fulminating against America. He was not the only one. In Iran last week everyone, it seemed, had it in for the U.S. Some 500 delegates from 50 countries met in the capital for the express purpose of castigating "U.S. interventions in Iran." Among them was a group of ten prominent Americans, headed by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who had defied a presidential ban on travel to Iran in order to attend the four-day official conference...
...Clark and his traveling companions were widely criticized as tools of Iranian propaganda. White House Spokesman Jody Powell noted that the violation of the presidential travel ban could legally be punished by $50,000 fines and ten-year prison sentences. Several members of the group were briefly detained when they arrived in New York late last week. Customs officials confiscated conference-related documents and copied them before returning them...
...differing shades of right-wing militancy have given rise to two main groups. Both originated with the Greater Israel Movement, formed in 1967 with the aim of annexing the West Bank. The most militant organization is Rabbi Meir Kahane's Kach (meaning "thus" in Hebrew), which the Brooklyn-born rabble-rouser established in Israel in 1974. Though only 30% of Kach's 400 members are Orthodox Jews, Kahane and his cohorts insist that the state of Israel should be governed according to biblical precepts. Kahane openly advocates violence to drive the Arabs out of the West Bank...
Somewhat less extreme is the larger Gush Emunim (Group of the Faithful), founded after the 1973 war by Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 44. Gush urges a policy of aggressive Jewish settlements in all the occupied Arab lands. In several instances it has used the tactic of illegal squatting until de facto settlement is finally recognized by the Israeli government...