Word: factionalized
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Several students attending the lecture said the disrupting group was composed mainly of members of the Muslim Student Association (MSA), a pro-Khomeini faction and rival...
...bomb blast wounded 20 people. "I don't know who is responsible, but I do know there is a group that said they had declared war on us," said General Kroesen. "I'm beginning to believe it." Specifically, the general was referring to the Red Army Faction, the terrorist group founded by Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhoff, which flourished in the 1970s. Confirmation came the next day when the Frankfurt Rundschau, a left-of-center daily, received a three-page type written letter explaining in turgid jargon that Kroesen had been attacked "because...
...brutal re-emergence of the Red Army Faction shook West German authorities out of the complacent belief that the nation's leftist terrorism had largely been brought under control. From a peak of 150 hard-core members four years ago, the Red Army Faction has dwindled to about 30 as a result of arrests, deaths in clashes with police and desertions from the cause. Despite their limited numbers, say West German officials, the terrorists want to exploit the wave of protest against the NATO decision to deploy U.S. medium-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe...
Ramstein, West Germany, Aug. 31. Two bombs were detonated in front of U.S. Air Force headquarters, causing extensive damage and injuring 20 people, 18 of them American soldiers. The Red Army Faction, once known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, claimed responsibility for the strike against "imperialism." Next day at Wiesbaden, several cars at an estate for U.S. servicemen were torched...
Frankfurt, Sept. 1. The regional office of the Social Democratic Party was firebombed and gutted. The Red Army Faction claimed responsibility...