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...uppers and downers, and this spring may bring more uppers than anybody cares to see. Radical Rennie Davis, for example, is organizing a mass demonstration aimed at strangling highway traffic near the Pentagon on May 6. There are unquestionably many people, both in and out of the Weatherman faction, who still believe that the way to salvation is a pipe bomb and a fuse. Trashing is still considered a reliable tactic in many radical quarters, as is "selective" violence...
...rainy afternoon of January 21, 1921, a small faction of disgruntled Socialists met in a darkened Leghorn movie theater to found the Italian Communist Party. Last week some 16,000 party faithful traveled from all over Italy by car and chartered bus to Rome's suburban Sport Palace for a four-hour rally to celebrate the 50th anniversary of that event. Party Secretary Luigi Longo, grizzled and ailing at 70, was presented with a framed replica of his 1921 membership card along with a 1971 model. He declared proudly: "The forecast was that our life would be short. Today...
Under the pragmatic foreign policy of President Urho Kekkonen, which is based on maintaining smooth relations with the Soviets, Communists have served in coalition governments since 1966. One branch of the party advocates a moderate "peaceful road" to Communist rule, but a hard-line faction insists on waging a "class-conscious fight against big capital." The rest of the nation, which remembers all too well that the Communists were caught plotting a coup in 1948, still takes the hardliners' threats more than half seriously. Last week, in a demonstration of their increased militancy, the tough faction incited workers...
...regain some of the lost business, an activist faction in the exchange's power structure-including Lasker, Salomon and Merrill Lynch Chairman Donald Regan-is willing to reduce commissions on big trades and liberalize the membership rules. Says Regan: "This is the solution for the exchange-the only way that it can get back that business." But the go-slow camp-including Loeb and Levy-fears that lower, negotiated commissions might lead to collusion between some brokers and big traders. Others argue that the change would cause more failures among brokerage houses because strong firms would underbid the weak...
...Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...