Word: faction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Munich suburb of Gauting last week, two members of West Germany's Red Army Faction shot and killed Ernst Zimmermann, 55, chief executive of MTU, a major West German engine manufacturer and well-known defense contractor. Posing as messengers, a young German couple gained entrance to Zimmermann's white stucco home, forced his wife to lie on the floor and took Zimmermann into another room, where they shot him in the head with a revolver. Zimmermann died twelve hours later. It was the second murder by European terrorists in eight days. On Jan. 25, a shadowy French group called Action...
Within an hour, an anonymous caller telephoned Agence France-Presse in Paris and claimed that the killing had been carried out by Action Directe, a shadowy French terrorist group that has been linked to West Germany's Red Army Faction. Only hours before Audran's killing, three 230-ft. electric-power pylons at a nuclear-power plant near Hamburg were damaged by explosives. Also last week a suspected Red Army Faction member, Johannes Thimme, 28, became the first casualty of the new terror campaign: he was killed when a bomb he was carrying in a baby carriage detonated prematurely...
...Catholic Church was a political faction, then Boston's fifth archbishop would be a party man through and through. Law represents a new breed of American Catholic leaders who, according to Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus George Williams, increasingly reflect the conservative tone of John Paul's leadership on issues ranging from abortion to the role of religion in a pluralistic society...
...Libyan jets of Lebanese faction disturbs the president's blissful slumber. As Arlo Guthrie has said unto...
...aide to Watt, Hodel had been an ardent champion of more oil and coal exploration and other commercial development of federal lands. While an official of a federal power authority in the Pacific Northwest, he denounced the environmental movement as having "fallen into the hands of a small, arrogant faction dedicated to bringing our society to a halt." Although he patiently listened to conservationists make their pitches to his Energy Department, he also helped kill a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency under William Ruckelshaus to take some action against acid rain, rather than just study the problem. Complains...