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...vote was a victory for Sinn Fein's president, Gerry Adams, 38, who had argued that electoral participation is the "only feasible way out of our isolation." Some 130 hard-core "abstentionists," however, promptly formed a breakaway group. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald called the party's attempt to hold public office "an abuse of the democratic system...
Trailing by one, Harvard packed into the Dartmouth zone in a last-minute effort to send the game into overtime--but Gates managed a breakaway goal to insure Dartmouth's victory with 30 seconds left...
...close game broke wide open when the Crimson tallied on two breakaway tries. Co-Captain Ray LaRaja took a well-timed pitch from Mike Gibbs--who tossed the ball just as he was being hit--and scored on a breakaway run from 45 yards...
Defenders of the wedding bond highlighted the plight of the divorced spouse. They played upon the fears of countryfolk, especially women, stranded in economically ravaged areas, where unemployment is often well over 50%. One study cited by Alice Glenn, a breakaway member of parliament from FitzGerald's Fine Gael party, revealed that 93% of divorced women with children in the U.S. live below the poverty line. "A woman voting for divorce," Glenn often repeated, "is like a turkey voting for Christmas...
Obando has drawn sharp criticism not only from radical priests in the government but also from their religious followers. A breakaway church faction, strongly influenced by Marxist-leaning "liberation theology," claims about 20 of Nicaragua's 327 priests and perhaps as many as 50,000 followers, including some members of Nicaragua's "base communities," mostly poor, urban religious groups without priests. The breakaways find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says...