In 1976 a radio executive outspokenly critical of anti-Castro terrorism lost his legs in a Miami car-bombing.

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Mr Bukhari is a young moderate Muslim who was outspokenly critical of what he saw as the imams' failure to curb extremism in Muslim communities.

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The fearsome Mr Rangel is an outspokenly left-wing representative from Harlem.

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Grenell is a fierce conservative who is also outspokenly gay.

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Mr. Abbas has overseen terrorist attacks for the past several decades and has outspokenly conditioned peace on the destruction of Israel as a Jewish state through the so-called "right of return" of millions of foreign born Arabs to Israel.

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