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...Gastarbeiter (guest workers) and their families. Their close-knit ghettos near industrial centers would have given Agca plenty of cover, as they have for other extremists in exile. A contact with the P.F.L.P. would have been possible in such a ghetto. West German authorities say that militant Turkish right-wingers there have sent followers to Lebanon for training by the P.F.L.P. Turkish officials believe that members of Agca's own National Action Party were trained in Palestinian camps in Lebanon...
...some extent, Giscard was hurt by a weakness that plagued him since he took office in 1974: the lack of a powerful party base. His own Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.) is a small and loose-knit group that is not nearly as well organized as its troublesome Gaullist coalition partner, the Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.). Chirac, who polled a respectable 18% in the first round of the presidential voting, gave Giscard only a lukewarm endorsement in the second round. Post-election analysis indicates that only 75% of Chirac's supporters cast their votes for Giscard. The R.P.R...
...FASCINATION WITH POWER--often human and individual, sometimes supernatural, never quite definable--has traditionally emerged from the glowing reaches of Muriel Spark's imagination. Her novels and short stories feature closely-knit enclaves of manipulators and their victims. In The Bachelors, five or six nearly middle-aged men and women linked by their fascination with the supernatural, and hounded by clinging mothers and impossible romances, formed friendships that became occultist liaisons--which led to trials for forgery, coercion, and suggestions of murder...
...husky captains of the guys' and girls' swimming teams would be making love frantically, faintly worrying about how to explain their absence to the coach. In front of the headmaster's residence two little children, a boy and girl indistinguishable from each other in their cordurov overalls and knit hats, would romp with an aging golden retriever named Mayflower...
...large extent, the antiabortion movement has recently come under the aegis of the New Right. Conservative pro-life groups have formed a loose-knit alliance with organizations opposed to school