Word: splinteringly
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Without the moderates, Mathias believes, the Republicans will become more and more a splinter party. Senate colleagues like New York's Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case, Illinois' Charles Percy and Massachusetts' Ed Brooke-men who win elections in large, industrial, Democratic states -help to keep the G.O.P. a major party with a broad base. If the moderates sink, speculates Mathias with obvious concern, they may drag the two-party system down with them. Some Republicans snort at such a gloomy prediction; they wonder why Mathias has not cleared out a long time...
That enemy was presumed to be the terror-prone Provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army. But the Proves, who are normally not shy about claiming credit for their killings, were silent, which suggested that the bombing was a freelance job by some I.R.A. splinter group...
...reformer whose fasts over issues ranging from abortion to free speech have become a continuing press event in Italy. The leftist, civil libertarian radicals, who picked up four seats in the chamber, were running nationally for the first time, as were the former "extraparliamentarians," a melange of revolutionary Marxist splinter groups who banded together a few weeks before the election. Having rendered their name a misnomer by running for and winning six seats, the extraparliamentarians now call themselves Proletarian Democrats. The most prominent of the new in-house revolutionaries is P.D. Deputy Luciana Castellina, sharp-witted feminist journalist. This constellation...
...Spanish opposition, which includes 200 or more separate parties and splinter groups, is not overly impressed with the constitutional reforms. For one thing, critics note that the equal powers of the reactionary Upper House apparently involve the authority to block any legislation proposed by the popularly elected assembly. For another, they wonder about how much power the opposition parties will really have while even anti-Communists believe that the Communist Party-which might command only 10% of the votes-should be legalized, although the government argues that it is "too soon." "This 'constitutional reform' is nothing more than...
...vote modestly from 12.5% to 15%. They did so by holding on to their small but ardent constituency in the Lisbon industrial belt and among the landless peasants in the southern rural district of Alentejo, while picking up new strength as a result of a decision by a Communist splinter party to withdraw from the election...