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...Israeli. Last month, the fedayeen set up a council to coordinate raids between El Fatah and its two chief rivals, the Palestine Liberation Force and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or P.F.L.P. (inevitably pronounced "flop" by Westerners on the scene), a militantly leftist merger of several splinter organizations on the scene...
...more radical supporters and some momentum for reform. Hoping to charge through that generation gap is Caldera, 52, a talented lawyer who has been trying for the presidency since 1947, and now has assembled the country's smoothest-functioning political machine. Also in the running are four splinter candidates, most notably Acción Democrática Dissident Luis Beltran Prieto and Miguel Angel Burelli, who has the support of three minor opposition parties...
...George Wallace, 9,181,466 (13%). The indicated electoral vote was 290 for Nixon, 203 for Humphrey and 45 for Wallace. Contrary to many predictions, the voters showed no inclination to boycott the election. Nor were they so angry or disillusioned as to waste inordinate numbers of votes on splinter parties...
...police knew the identity of their enemy: four splinter groups in Zengakuren, the faction-ridden Japanese student federation. The vast majority of Zengakuren members, including the Communists, stayed away from the riots. Those who did riot, like the New Left everywhere, regard the Communists as bourgeois and politically backward and consider themselves the "conscience of the nation." $1,000,000 Damages. As the battle for Shinjuku station wore on through the night, the Public Safety Commission held an emergency session and ordered the imposition of the antiriot law, which provides penalties of up to ten years in jail. Previously, rioters...
Mclntire began his crusade in 1936, when he broke with his denomination, the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., charging that its foreign mission board was "discriminating against conservative missionaries" who preached the virgin birth and other fundamentalist doctrines. That same year Mclntire founded a splinter congregation, the Bible Presbyterian Church, headquartered in Collingswood, N.J. In 1948 he organized the I.C.C.C. as a counterthrust to the newly founded World Council, which he branded "apostate" and an "ecumenical monster...