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For years, Cheney was a hero to the Republican right for his forthright manner and dry-as-dust ideological beliefs - and reviled by the left, who accused him of working for the interests of the oil industry.

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Hoover-style service resumed, in other words, with a new target even more universally reviled than Red infiltrators.

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Under pressure from its overseas hosts and increasingly reviled at home, the militant group had little choice but to relent.

Fonda’s most noteworthy and reviled political moment occurred the same year, when she was photographed by the North Vietnamese sitting atop an antiaircraft gun.

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But why did thousands of people travel miles to the heart of Westminster to march with a man reviled by mainstream politics – carrying a banner calling for Remigration Now?

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