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...campus rallies, threats and demands, and finally a student strike two weeks ago--before Brown students were moved to take over a building. And even then the student body was not solidly behind the activists--University Hall was being occupied by what was essentially a black and Latin splinter group from the original coalition of students protesting the budget cutbacks...
Premier Rabin, who has been in office since June, probably would have acted faster if he had not been handicapped by his dependence on splinter parties for his unstable, one-vote majority in the Knesset. Only in the past few weeks, after gaining the support of the right-wing National Religious Party, did he feel that he had sufficient support to move. His program was widely praised by the press, and according to a quick telephone poll by Tel Aviv's Dahaf Agency, 51% of the voters approved Rabin's measures-surprisingly high support considering the sacrifices involved...
...fourth party, the extreme left, consists of a coalition of two Communist splinter parties--one Soviet-oriented, the other autonomous--and the United Democratic Left (EDA), of Elias Eliou. EDA shifted its electoral power toward the Center during the 1960s--partly out of a desire to combat the authoritarian government of the prejunta Caramanlis. Whether it will regain its followers once more remains to be seen. A striking phenomenon in Greece these days (or in Athens, at least), is the extreme left's appeal to middle-class youth. And what is almost unbelievable is the older generation's tolerance...
...Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command is another militant splinter from the Habash group. Led by Ahmed Jebreel, 45, a onetime Syrian army officer, the General Command's hard-core force of 150 guerrillas was responsible for the Qiryat Shemona raid in Israel last spring in which an apartment house was attacked and 16 occupants were killed...
...Switzerland was once again suffering from one of its periodic bouts of xenophobia last week. "We just don't feel at home in our country any more," declared Valentin Oehen, 43, a parliamentary deputy from the conservative canton of Lucerne. Oehen and his National Action Party, an ultraconservative splinter group, proposed a constitutional amendment that would limit the number of foreigners in Switzerland's 6.3 million population to 500,000. Under the measure, more than half of the 1,052,000 foreign residents in the country would have to be deported. Even foreigners who have lived there...