Word: splinters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jewish businesswoman, joined the radical Jewish Defense League. He was convicted in the 1977 bombing of a Soviet bookstore in Manhattan. Soon after, Fitzpatrick turned government informer. According to court documents he was paid about $10,000 by the FBI to inform on two members of a j.d.l. splinter group who were eventually convicted of the 1978 attempt to bomb an Egyptian tourist office in New York City...
Just as the Hezbollah and Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
...Nation of Islam (NOI) while in prison and become the foremost spokesman of its fiercely proud and racist party line, played out his final political incarnation. After revealing that his mentor, Elijah Muhammad, had fathered several illegitimate children, Malcolm had split with the Nation. He had founded a splinter group, traveled to Mecca, adopted a more tolerant political philosophy (along with the name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) and begun to believe he was marked for death -- correctly so. One conspirator distracted his bodyguards' attention; another pulled a shotgun trigger, creating, in the words of writer Marshall Frady, "a perfectly...
...nation needs solutions, even imperfect ones, to its immense problems; fine-tuning can come later. It's true that a huge majority for either party would probably grease the wheels of government, but straying towards a one-party system is an ominous sign. Having dozens of splinter parties might foster some of the dynamism of a true democracy, but neither of the current parties will want to be the first to disintegrate. Some people suggest term limits for elected officials as a solution, but there's little reason to suspect that experience is the root of the problem...
...event that the "political battles" to come cannot resolve such differences, Ulster residents are all too aware that none of the paramilitary organizations have shown any willingness to hand over their weapons. On the Republican side, armed splinter groups like the Irish National Liberation Army have not even joined the truce. For the present, though, like survivors of a long, dark winter, the citizenry on both sides came out to exult in the new light, hesitantly unwinding their nerves and reflexes after 25 years...