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Some Democratic officials fear that a Lindsay candidacy might provoke a schism on the left of the party, which could result in a fourth-party candidate that would divide the Democratic vote and ensure Nixon's reelection. But these Democrats argue that Lindsay has no chance for the nomination anyway...
...previous speakers' differences and conceded that analysts still had a "clouded vision" on aggression. Then, sounding like a reincarnation of her father, she added: "But who should arrive at valid results if not we?" Everybody applauded. But nothing had really been settled. Psychoanalysis, which has survived two great schisms provoked by Jung and Adler, seemed headed for a new and challenging schism...
Despite the successful 1968 suppression of Czechoslovakia, Eastern Europe remains potentially explosive, as the December riots in Poland demonstrated (see page 36). A new exchange of denunciations between Peking and Moscow last week indicated that the Sino-Soviet schism remains as gaping as ever. Furthermore, Brezhnev may be having second thoughts about the wisdom of seeking a détente with West Germany (except on conditions that Bonn cannot accept); possibly Moscow does not really want to give up West Germany as a convenient propaganda whipping boy. Significantly, the Soviets toned down their calls for a Conference on European Security that...
Also, the effect of the schism on the Panthers' radical backers is unknown. Both Party members and their coterie of white supporters are chronically anxious about bad publicity, especially since the Party's popularity as a political cause among whites seems to have declined over the past year...
Black Panther Robert Webb, 22, moved from San Francisco to New York about a year ago. In the growing Panther schism between supporters of Huey Newton, the party's Oakland-based minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, now exiled in Algiers, Webb sided with Cleaver. Last week Webb and two friends were walking along a Harlem street when they encountered several other blacks who were selling the party newspaper; since the publication is Newton-controlled, the Cleaver wing has proscribed it. Webb tried to stop the men from hawking it, but three of them drew guns and fired...