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While disagreements among the various factions brought an end to hopes for a national coalition of student activists, one splinter group established the Northeast Student Action Network (NSAN). NSAN provides student activists at New England-area schools with a means of finding out what is happening at other campuses in their area, Perkins says...
...send their books into the marketplace festooned with admiring quotations from familiar names. Hence this memoir, subtitled Reflections of a World War II Aviator, bears endorsements from the likes of James Dickey, Howard Nemerov, Russell Baker and Ted Williams. Ted Williams? Yes, indeed. And what does the "Splendid Splinter" have to say? "No matter what part of the service you were in as a young kid, you will relive many of the memories Sam Hynes has written about in this book." The sole problem with this recommendation is its exclusivity. In truth, Flights of Passage not only jogs memories...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, a P.L.O. splinter group based in Damascus, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was an effort "to revive the armed struggle" against the Jewish state. Israeli officials said they have known for several years that the group's leader, Ahmed Jibril, was training hang-glider terrorist squads in Syria. Israeli Deputy Chief of Staff Major General Ehud Barak vowed that Jibril's organization "will in due time pay the price" for its murderous mission...
...Saturday, Mohtashami made his espionage charges, claiming that the French diplomats had "acted as a connecting bridge to help counterrevolutionaries escape abroad and also to help link splinter groups inside Iran." French officials accused Iran of making the spying allegations in order to create a situation parallel to the standoff in Paris. They announced that if Tehran approves, Italy will represent France in Iran, where nearly 300 French nationals still reside, in addition to the embassy personnel. The first job for the Italians would be to try to defuse the crisis by negotiating the mutual repatriation of the French...
...Jung, broke with the New Korea Democratic Party and formed a new group, the Reunification Democratic Party. Most antigovernment legislators decided to follow suit, quickly making the R.D.P. the primary opposition party, with 67 seats in the 276-member National Assembly. But the regrouping nonetheless served to splinter Chun's critics further...