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Canadians were disturbed enough when their traditional two parties fractured into four in 1962's general elections, and the two splinter parties gained enough strength to inaugurate a siege of minority government. Last week Ottawa got a fifth political party when one of the splinters splintered. Le Ralliement des Creditistes the new party was christened, and its founding father was Real Caouette, the firebrand Quebec Chrysler dealer who has been the leader of the French-Canadian branch of the prairie-based, funny-money Social Credit Party. In last April's national elections, Caouette and his fellow French-Canadians...
...ceremonies unless Lewis agreed to tone it down. Leaders of other civil rights organizations pleaded with Lewis. He finally gave in, but not very far. In his changed version, he said Kennedy's bill could be supported, but only with "great reservations." And he promised to "splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces and put them back together again in the image of democracy...
...root of its downfall was a long-developing schism between the party's moderate, pro-West majority and its far-left fringe, which demands Norway's withdrawal from NATO. Two years ago, some leftist Laborites bolted, formed a splinter "Socialist People's Party," and managed to win two parliamentary seats. Partly as a result of the defection, Premier Einar Gerhardsen's government lost its majority in the Storting (parliament), found itself deadlocked, 74 seats to 74 seats, with the opposition coalition. The balance of power was held by two splinter leftists. Reluctantly, Gerhardsen accepted their support...
...tragic scandal in the state-run coal mines. In recent years, four disastrous explosions and several lesser accidents have plagued the mines, at a cost of 74 lives. Several weeks ago, an investigating commission charged official negligence. Last week, after four days of angry debate, the two splinter Socialists joined with the opposition in a no-confidence vote. One of the leftists, Finn Gustavsen, explained that the S.P.P. toppled Gerhardsen because "he has no longer any contact with the working class." There was spite involved, too; Gerhardsen recently appointed that old Communist target, ex-U.N. Secretary-General Trygve...
...York farm. For 24 years, Alexandra Tolstoy, 79, only living child of Russia's great novelist, has devoted her time to the care of anti-Communist refugees-and at her Tolstoy Foundation Center, near Nyack, is a group of Staroobriadtsi (Old Believers), survivors of a splinter sect of the Russian Orthodox Church whose members fled to Turkey from their homeland nearly 300 years ago. Miss Tolstoy enlisted the U.S. Government's aid in order to bring 224 of them over, and now hopes to help them set up a permanent community. "Think of all the rich people...