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...main ideological adversary. Berlinguer's colleagues insisted that his trip was merely an attempt to resume normal relations with the Chinese party, which were cut off in 1962. Nonetheless, the visit was not only a slap at the Kremlin but also a vivid demonstration of the deep schism that has been widening down the middle of the movement once called Eurocommunism...
...wing. Most of all, his independent stance could lead to "a formal disowning of the Italian Communist Party by the Soviets," as Columnist Vittorio Gorresio wrote in Turin's influential daily La Stampa. Combined with Berlinguer's other heresies, such an outright break could lead to a schism within the Italian Communist party-and a strong challenge to his leadership...
...even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing for what could prove to be, if events take the darkest of turns, the final true Olympics. The sad truth is that the political pressures that have always borne so heavily on the Olympic Games today threaten to open an irreparable schism in world sport (see ESSAY...
...Great Schism between these two branches of Christianity is traditionally dated from mutual excommunications hurled in 1054 by Rome and Constantinople (as Istanbul was called until 1930). In 1204 Crusaders sacked Constantinople and temporarily installed a Latin-rite Patriarch. Today there are still differences about such matters as divorce (the Orthodox permit it on grounds of adultery and allow no more than three marriages in a lifetime), and especially the Nicene Creed. The Orthodox insist on the original wording of the creed, in which the Holy Spirit "proceeds from the Father." Catholicism adds that the Spirit proceeds from "the Father...
...winners divided the house of Sweden's Karolinska Institute. The 15-member Nobel Selection Committee had sifted through nominees and sent a name or names to the full 54-member Nobel Assembly, but that choice was overturned after a lengthy debate. Though no rejected names were divulged, the schism was apparently an ideological one: some institute members insisted that winners be confined to scientists engaged in basic research, while others felt that achievements in medical technology should also be considered. The choice of the CAT-scanner pioneers seemed a perfect compromise. Their work with abstract physics and mathematics resulted...