Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people who attended the Evolution of Psychotherapy Conference last week in Phoenix, which was billed by its organizers as "probably the largest gathering ever devoted to the practice of psychotherapy." Part trade show, part ecumenical conference, the meeting drew participants from 29 countries and dozens of therapeutic splinter groups. Jeffrey Zeig, the director of Phoenix's Milton H. Erickson Foundation, which helped sponsor the event, counted 15 major schools of thought on the program, plus Thomas Szasz, a psychiatrist who does not believe that mental illness even exists...
Prior to that key matchup, the team will splinter this weekend for some individual tuneups: Harvard's top three players will journey to the Princeton Invitationals, while the next nine on the roster will face Bowdoin...
...Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres emerged with a slightly strengthened political hand from a bout of squabbling that enveloped his national unity government. By an 86-to-6 vote of the Knesset, Peres easily survived a no-confidence motion brought by Tehiya, a tiny right-wing splinter party. The motion was intended to force Peres to withdraw an offer that he had made a week earlier before the United Nations General Assembly. The Israeli leader told the U.N. that Israel might concede a role in the peace process to a vaguely defined "international forum" as an inducement for Jordan...
...Abbas joined the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, then and now a Marxist-oriented group headed by George Habash, who is still a power in the P.L.O. Finding the P.F.L.P. not radical enough, Abbas shortly after followed a former Syrian army officer named Ahmed Jabril into a splinter group calling itself the P.F.L.P.-General Command, which also still exists as part of the P.L.O. After being expelled from Jordan in 1971, the P.L.O., and Abbas with it, set up shop in Lebanon and grew into a major power, which, however, became enmeshed in the Lebanese civil war that...
...Achille Lauro proved one thing: that terrorism, horrifying in its immediate impact, can also have dangerous side effects that are as hard to control as they are to foresee. Certainly no one would have forecast the chain of events triggered by the four scruffy young members of a splinter of the Palestine Liberation Front who were being interrogated last week in a maximum-security prison in Spoleto about their role in the Achille Lauro hijacking. Nor could Mohammed Abul Abbas Zaidan, the man U.S. authorities were pursuing with grim determination from Italy to Yugoslavia to the murkier reaches...