Word: breakaway
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...breakaway splinter group called the Martin Luther King Jr. Movement Coalition obtained a parade permit for the area three weeks ago, forcing police to call up a 750-man protective patrol. When blacks showed up to march, however, police claimed a coalition leader had called and canceled the event the night before, prompting them to cancel the reinforcement call. Some blacks attempted to march anyway, but two leaders were quickly arrested and the march halted. Even so, angry white mobs went on a rampage. Perhaps hoping that tempers might cool with a change in the weather, the city then stated...
Captain Anne Johnson tied the game at one each on a breakaway pass from Wisty Oppenlander, but the Jumbos retaliated with two quick goals...
Pakistan's Prime Minister clung desperately to power last week, firmly convinced that his own time to fade had not yet come. But Bhutto's troubled and unhappy nation was plunged into its worst political crisis since the 1971 civil war, which ended in the breakaway of its eastern sector to become the independent country of Bangladesh...
...that is acceptable to the 270,000 whites. Prime Minister Ian Smith and his party, the Rhodesian Front, have accepted the principle of majority rule, but a first round of settlement talks in Geneva foundered last January over the makeup of an interim government for the breakaway colony...
...Flyers tried to put on one of their patented third period surges to pull out the game. With one minute to play Stephenson vacated the goal and Philadelphia began to pressure Cheevers, but the Bruins got off a breakaway and time ran out before the Flyers could get off the final shot...