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...April 29, 1823 a board of overseers reported that "a schism of two years standing has been the occasion of disaffection and alienation among the members of the senior class, and has required, in some cases, the intervention of the immediate Government...
Many Italian Communists believe the schism is irreversible. Giorgio Napolitano, leader of the Communist bloc in Parliament, said last week that the Pravda attack "represented such a violent, drastic condemnation that one cannot see how it could be reversed." Others still see some possibility of a future rapprochement. Said Camilla Ravera, 93, one of the last surviving founders of the Italian party: "This will be an episode, but in my life I have seen many of this type...
...compulsion of another sort drives Schism (Crown; 310 pages; $12.95), by Bill Granger. Father Leo Tunney, a Roman Catholic missionary and sometime CIA operative, totters back to civilization from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...
...journal in which the priest describes a Cambodia-based Soviet military project that could trigger World War III. The priest's journal is finally retrieved by a comely, red-haired reporter, Rita Macklin, who, unlike most other fictional red-haired reporters, is both credible and vulnerable. Schism, like his first novel, November Man, shows Bill Granger to be deft at high-wire suspense. His prose has the gritty tone of a Le Carre and a special feeling for a burned-out case...
...Last Days of America, Erdman 10. Schism, Granger...