Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fewer than four separate labor parties have played leading roles in Israel's convoluted political life. The most important is Premier Levi Eshkol's Mapai, whose power stems directly from Histadrut, the all-encompassing state labor union. Then there are Achdut Ha 'avodah, a Histadrut splinter party led by Labor Minister Yigal Allon, and Mapam, which leans far to the left. Finally, there is the Rafi party of former Premier David Ben-Gurion and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, which broke away from the Mapai two years ago after a feud with Eshkol. Even in Israel, such...
...church hall. Tate leaped on the crack as an insult to Catholics, and Specter publicly apologized. Having shown a 2-to-l advantage in the early opinion polls, Specter's lead over Tate in the latest samplings has dropped to 47% v. 41%, with the rest divided among splinter candidates or undecided...
Dayan is unbothered by such rebukes. He and his splinter Rafi Party will probably remain in Eshkol's Mapai-dominated government only until the present crisis is settled. In the meantime, Dayan intends to establish as independent a position as possible. For, as members of rival parties, Eshkol and Dayan are likely to be squared off against each other in the 1969 Israeli elections...
...Turner's revolt. But readers will not fail to recognize that the shadow of Nat Turner darkened the streets of Newark and Detroit in the summer of 1967-and hovers still. This novel goes beyond a mere retelling of history to show how the fettered human spirit can splinter into murderous rage when it is goaded beyond endurance...
...year history, the Bolshoi rolled into Montreal's Expo 67 with 193 tons of scenery and accessories, five tons of special food, 99 instrumentalists, 95 choristers, 48 soloists, 50 dancers, and 127 staff workers and extras (including six female stagehands). And this was a mere splinter group from the 3,000-member company back home...