Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nguyen Ty Hin, the sister of Mai, Dr. Tuong told me, was running for shelter when she was hit with shrapnel which severely wounded her hip. A large wound was opened up by a splinter from an anti-personnel bomb...
...watered-down Gospel." When he entered the Children of God, he took many of the Atlanta Jesus People with him. Linda Meissner, however, took far fewer of her Jesus People Army along-and indeed the feud between the mainstream Army (including Linda's husband John Salvesen) and her splinter group has scandalized Seattle's Jesus People...
...meeting U.S. energy needs without jeopardizing the environment. In spite of such annoyances, however, A.A.A.S. leaders were remarkably indulgent, rarely if ever calling on police to evict demonstrators. Indeed, at times the politicking seemed to be welcomed, as when a tall, blonde model passed out literature for a splinter group called the Federation of American Scientists...
...vote for democracy, it was made clear, was to vote against the Frente Amplio (Broad Front), a fast-growing coalition of left-wing parties and splinter groups not unlike the leftist coalition that carried Marxist Salvador Allende to power in Chile last year. Formed only ten months ago, the Front grew rapidly with support from Uruguay's restive labor unions and the youthful Tupamaro terrorists, as well as left-wing students, intellectuals and Catholic revolutionary groups- all bitter enemies of the toughly disciplinarian government headed by President Jorge Pacheco Areco...
...handful of members picketed the White House. Campaign-style buttons appeared on lapels-P.O.W.-M.I.A.S NUMBER ONE, NOT THIEU-a reflection of concern that the Administration is using the issue of the prisoners' release to win more time for Nguyen Van Thieu's Saigon government. A splinter group, P.O.W.-M.I.A. Families for Immediate Release, offered anti-Administration position papers, and urged the league to shift from a strictly humanitarian to a frankly political stance by demanding that Nixon negotiate the prisoners' release without regard to Thieu's future...