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When police seized three top leaders .and more than 20 alleged followers of the celebrated Baader-Meinhof gang in the summer of 1972, many West Germans felt a sense of relief. During a two-year reign of anarchist-inspired violence, the group, which styled itself the "Red Army Faction," was accused of dozens of bombings, bank robberies and cops-and-robbers shootouts. Since then, all of the defendants have remained locked up awaiting trial, but the authorities fear that the group's sympathizers have reorganized for another outbreak of terror...
...American press tends to promote Mavros as second to Caramanlis in political clout. Yet, as a minister in the same interim government, the Centrist leader has found it difficult to criticize the premier and project an independent identity. This factor may bolster the faction to his immediate left...
...most spectacular sign of the strategy was the rise of a former Shanghai cotton-mill worker, Wang Hung-wen, 38, from virtual obscurity to vice chairman of the party. He now ranks below only Mao and Chou in the hierarchy. Since Wang is associated with such radical faction leaders as Chiang Ching and Politburo Member Yao Wenyuan, his promotion indicated that the leftists could not simply be pushed aside as a political force...
...directly authorized the expenditures by the CIA in Chile. His activity in this affair was but one move toward making the world safe not for peace but for the protection of American corporations' interests abroad. According to The New York Times account, Kissinger headed the State Department faction which, not content with peaceful subversion of Chile's government, wanted to hasten a military coup. The removal from office of Kissinger would be the first shift toward a wholesale shift in foreign policy away from support of repressive governments and toward the nurturing of close ties with popular leaders such...
Wearing flowing white ecclesiastical robes, the Rev. John Tietjen, leader of the Missouri Synod's breakaway liberal faction, delivered that bitter eulogy last week from a pulpit set up in an auditorium at the O'Hare Inn near Chicago. It was what his 1,600 listeners wanted to hear. They were members of Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (E.L.I.M.), a dissident group that has been warring openly with the conservative hierarchy of the 2.8 million-member denomination. Tietjen's lament for the church underlined the fact that the Missouri Synod's conservative leadership is now firmly...