Word: splinterable
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...special election to fill Ford's seat, his hand-picked candidate, Robert VanderLaan, led Democrat Richard VanderVeen by 60% to 28% in the polls. But on election day in Grand Rapids and environs, VanderVeen won by 51% to 44%, with the rest of the votes going to splinter candidates. It was a stinging rebuke for the G.O.P. and an early alarm bell for every Republican running for office this fall. Said William McLaughlin, Michigan's Republican state chairman: "The results should tell Nixon that there is trouble in the vineyards. We had the best candidate and the best...
...Airport two weeks ago, as well as other recent hijackings, seemed to have a special motivation. Not only were the casualties particularly high-32 died-but the attack came almost on the eve of the Geneva peace conference. The Rome attack was apparently the work of a Black September splinter group that is against any compromise with Israel...
...military will not be tempted to overthrow it. Moreover, the members of the new national Parliament must be selected in a way that will not confuse the politically unsophisticated peasantry. Above all, the constitution must find some method of preventing the growth of dozens of tiny political factions and splinter groups, which paralyzed Thailand's previous attempts at parliamentary government...
...appears that Markezinis will play a leading role in that unfinished chapter. The Athens-born lawyer and founder of the Progressive Party, a small right-wing splinter group, was named last week by Papadopoulos to be Greece's first civilian Premier since the junta seized power. At the same time, Papadopoulos requested the resignation of the 13 military men in his Cabinet and asked Markezinis to form a new civilian Cabinet to be sworn in this week...
...terrorists identified themselves as "the Eagles of the Palestine Revolution." That sounded like yet another unknown guerrilla splinter group, but Middle East sources reported that the kidnapers were almost certainly members of the extremist Black September movement. At the airport, the terrorists demanded that Austrian officials produce a passenger plane to carry the remaining Jewish hostages - two men and a woman - to an unspecified destination in the Arab world. But Austrian officials, after consulting with Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, closed the airport and stubbornly refused to let the kidnapers and their hostages leave...