Word: splintered
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...movement turning to increasingly strident tactics, but white progressives say Black bitterness threatens interracial cooperation against apartheid. At the same time, Prime Minister Botha's efforts at even token reforms have unleashed a substantial backlash among white South Africans, with a substantial portion of the Afrikaner electorate backing a splinter far right party formed...
...wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), led by Duarte's nemesis, former Army Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, and the center-right National Conciliation Party. The rightist grouping is expected to take 22 to 25 seats; it previously held 33. The remaining seats will probably go to centrist and center-right splinter parties. In simultaneous local balloting, according to preliminary estimates, Duarte's party was winning in about 200 of 262 municipalities...
...common thread in this network of bigotry is the Aryan Nations, a white supremacist organization in Hayden Lake, Idaho, that Mathews and Yarbrough belonged to before breaking off and forming their own action-oriented splinter group. In December, Oregon Senator Robert Packwood and his family received police protection after an informant told the FBI that the Aryan Nations planned to assassinate Packwood, a strong supporter of Israel. Aryan Nations and its "Church of Jesus Christ Christian" are run by Richard G. Butler, 66, a former flight engineer who moved to Idaho from California in 1973. Butler has claimed to have...
...three years to a meaningful experience. But to assume that this type of community will automatically spring up from a group lumped together by the arbitary workings of a computer is mistaken. Something more, something like common interests, is needed. A random lottery may diversify but it will also splinter...
...blue-coated Irish policemen as the leaders of the ten European Community nations gathered for a two-day summit last week. Irish officials were holding their breath: less than two months after an Irish Republican Army bomb almost claimed the life of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an I.R.A. splinter group had vowed to try again. Instead, a different kind of assault came from an unexpected source. As the meeting drew to a close, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou threatened to torpedo its major goal: a painstakingly constructed agreement on the terms under which Spain and Portugal would be able...